NASA's Swift telescope's 22 years in orbit, rebuilt from its archive
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HN · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 86%) · 0 views
Niche: data and scientific visualization tools · 146 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a browser-side visualization that computes and animates an orbit from public NASA archive data, a standard front-end task.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
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Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
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