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Mission-control style spacecraft tracker in Rust: live ISS, Dragon, Hubble, JWST and Roman orbits, passes and schedules. Retro CRT themes, and a mode for Raspberry Pi + composite CRT.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 152 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A spacecraft tracker that computes live ISS and satellite positions, passes, and schedules from public TLE data is well served by existing libraries such as SGP4, plus a retro UI. The Raspberry Pi composite CRT mode is niche but uses known tooling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 199 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #16 of 200 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Ground Station · hn · 2026-02-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- EarthCraft · github · 2026-10-12 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive · hn · 2026-08-23 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ISS Live Tracker · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Where is the ISS? Live 3D tracker · hn · 2026-05-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Wardstone: Satellites for Missile Defense · yc · 2025-11-12 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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