Made a little Artemis II tracker
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Made a little Artemis II tracker for anyone else who is unnecessarily invested in this mission:https://artemis-ii-tracker.com/For those of us who apparently need a dedicated place to monitor this mission instead of behaving like well-adjusted people.
HN · launched Apr 2, 2026 · 154 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized navigation and tracking apps · 203 launches, 35 in the last 7 days ▲ +84% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is an informational web tracker utilizing publicly available NASA flight trajectories, milestone data, and standard frontend countdown/mapping components.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: artemis-ii-tracker.com, issinfo.net, NASA AROW, NASA site
Concerns raised: Trajectory visualization is technically inaccurate, Distance calculations off by ~60,000 km compared to NASA AROW, Firefox and derivatives don't work (Chrome only), Earth and Moon not to scale, Data discrepancies with NASA official data
Feature requests: Add 3D graphics using WebGL for spacecraft position, Display live NASA telemetry data, Support Firefox and other browsers
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 33 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 34 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 139 days after the earliest competitor.
- Where Is Artemis? · hn · 2026-04-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Artemis.fyi · hn · 2026-04-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker · hn · 2026-04-02 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Moonshot · ph · 2026-04-06 · 439 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Odd Orbit · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos · hn · 2026-11-09 · 488 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Artemis II Moon Mission Simulator in the Browser · hn · 2026-04-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Odd Orbit, live 3D globe of quakes, weather, satellites and UFO reports · hn · 2026-10-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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