This is cool!
NASA uses Imperial units (well, unless the it's the Mars Climate Orbiter). Can we get a version that follows the units they are using with their public feeds?
jamesbfb•Apr 3, 2026
Bless! Absolutely love this, and an absolutely no disrespect, this is vibe code goodness! These are the kinds of things I have an absolute ball building, usually when I’m sitting on the couch at the end of the day duel screening.
What’s the data source? Assuming NASA being NASA they have a public API for the mission?
dvt•Apr 3, 2026
To me, what's super interesting about this is the fact that my brain instantly recognized it's AI coded (not sure why, it might be the spacing, the font, the text glow, etc.).
YCprince•Apr 3, 2026
The First thought that came to mind was It's AI coded. Maybe it's because they follow a similar design pattern. Or maybe we have some supernatural powers
noman-land•Apr 3, 2026
Claude always makes sites look this way.
willio58•Apr 3, 2026
What way? Genuine curiosity
noman-land•Apr 3, 2026
This sort of bluish dark mode with monospace fonts. Similar accent colors. Not sure where it got this style from.
pmontra•Apr 3, 2026
Developers and their customers mostly gave up design many years ago and used frameworks like Bootstrap because they are good enough, they are cheap to create, they increase speed to deliver with no external designer in the loop, etc. That made many sites look alike. AI designed web sites are the next natural step.
sph•Apr 3, 2026
What's even more interesting is that data is completely off compared to official sources, and the author doesn't even have the decency and self-reflection of checking if their slop is at all accurate before posting it to the HN front page.
Vibe coders, like the eggman himself, are philosophical zombies.
arnav7717•Apr 3, 2026
very cool! How did you get the data?
GrifMD•Apr 3, 2026
This is cool! I do want to ask, did you have AI design the page for you? It looks like a design pattern I've seen spit out by LLMs pretty frequently.
I'm not hear to talk down to you about the site, I love this little thing that gives me just enough info to satisfy my curiosity.
zamadatix•Apr 3, 2026
I'll be the guy that talks down about Show HN becoming a place to post the thing you just vibe coded then because they didn't even bother to check the accuracy of the result - the numbers it provides about the mission are waaay off from reality right now, it just looks fancy.
I'm not necessarily against people sharing AI generated projects but there almost needs to be an [AI] tag if they do because it's really crashing the excitement of seeing a Show HN post where the assumption is this is something someone has been working hard on and is proud to show it off rather than something they just got out of Claude or whatever after a few prompts.
My take: If you didn't spend at least 24 hours of your own time (i.e. not munging with what the LLM is outputting but dedicated time for your own edits/testing) then it shouldn't qualify as a normal Show HN.
Aside... so impressed with the UI on the posted version.
rhubarbtree•Apr 3, 2026
Great UI, but inaccurate slop. Couldn’t this have been validated against NASA’s site? Can we get this off the front page if the author can’t even be bothered to do that?
Gagarin1917•Apr 3, 2026
I don’t think the current position of Orion is accurate. It shows them about halfway to the moon, but they’re just leaving Earth orbit right now.
It has "Distance From Earth" at 44,096 km (converted from miles...,) as opposed to 158,000 km. So yes, far off.
0x38B•Apr 3, 2026
It says the distance from Earth right now is 154,000km, but the other trackers, including NASA, say 30,000km (numbers rounded). The velocity is different as well, 7km/s vs NASA's 4km/s.
4ndrewl•Apr 3, 2026
You're absolutely right! Let me go ahead and fix that now...(the sound of credits disappearing...) /s
dap•Apr 3, 2026
Is the MET right? They launched about 29 hours ago but it says 1d18h
rozab•Apr 3, 2026
This has always been a peeve of mine, but the lack of scale diagrams in coverage of this is maddening. We know what the Earth and the Moon look like, there is no need to make them 20 times bigger. Surely the point of these diagrams is to show the unbelievable scale of the journey. I'm yet to see one this news cycle, from NASA or anyone else
groggo•Apr 3, 2026
Someone should make a website or project and post it on HN, and then set up an AI agent takes the top comments and just implements them.
zamadatix•Apr 3, 2026
In defense of the given approach:
False scale gives a direct way to see which body is which and where the craft is between them without having to work it out backwards from the rest of the context (while real scale makes both sides just looks like dots on typical sized screens and you need to know/read the rest before you can figure out which is which otherwise).
Combine that with "the scale of the Earth is already too large to comprehend accurately anyways" and defaulting to real scale doesn't really add as much as one might think to the experience anyways.
I can't see crap. Fonts too small, everything too dark.
jug•Apr 3, 2026
I recommend https://issinfo.net/artemis over the surge of vibe coded Artemis II trackers. Seen two others so far and they've all had major inaccuracies either regarding trajectory, current distance, or current mission state. One even said the remaining mission time was over 400 days. They all obviously used Claude Code.
spuz•Apr 3, 2026
Thanks - it's very nice to have a progress bar that you can scrub through to see where and when they have been and will be later in the mission.
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What’s the data source? Assuming NASA being NASA they have a public API for the mission?
Vibe coders, like the eggman himself, are philosophical zombies.
I'm not hear to talk down to you about the site, I love this little thing that gives me just enough info to satisfy my curiosity.
I'm not necessarily against people sharing AI generated projects but there almost needs to be an [AI] tag if they do because it's really crashing the excitement of seeing a Show HN post where the assumption is this is something someone has been working hard on and is proud to show it off rather than something they just got out of Claude or whatever after a few prompts.
My take: If you didn't spend at least 24 hours of your own time (i.e. not munging with what the LLM is outputting but dedicated time for your own edits/testing) then it shouldn't qualify as a normal Show HN.
https://artemistracker.com/
https://artemislivetracker.com/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/
Aside... so impressed with the UI on the posted version.
It has "Distance From Earth" at 44,096 km (converted from miles...,) as opposed to 158,000 km. So yes, far off.
False scale gives a direct way to see which body is which and where the craft is between them without having to work it out backwards from the rest of the context (while real scale makes both sides just looks like dots on typical sized screens and you need to know/read the rest before you can figure out which is which otherwise).
Combine that with "the scale of the Earth is already too large to comprehend accurately anyways" and defaulting to real scale doesn't really add as much as one might think to the experience anyways.
The trajectory depicted has them hitting the moon; it should instead show them passing 2+ lunar diameters behind the moon.
Great sense of scale, lovely to see the Moon apparently a long way from the "intercept" point, and it seems "accurate enough".