Gecko's Eyes

Tracking STS-128 Mission

2009-08-30T00:03:00.004+09:00

STS-128 Discovery was launched successfully on Sat Aug 28 11:59 p.m EDT. Congratulations!

And GoogleSatTrack is tracking STS-128 & ISS.

GoogleSatTrack - STS-128 Discovery & International Space Station

R.I.P. Tool Bag

2009-08-14T10:01:00.005+09:00

The tool bag which had lost in space during STS-126 re-enterd atmosphere at 3 Aug 2009.
ref. SPACE.com -- Tool Bag Lost In Space Meets Fiery End

And GoogleSatTrack finished tracking it.

So long, baggy!

GoogleSatTrack v3.5

2009-06-08T09:25:00.006+09:00

GoogleSatTrack was updated on last month. Sorry for my late annauncement ;-)

New features are ...

Static map mode:
Once the map is zoomed out and map area becomes smaller than "whole earth", the map stops it's moving and is centered at the point latitude and longitude are zero.

Full window mode:
If you click the check box labeled "full window" below the map, the map area fits to the browser window.

Have fun!

GoogleSatTrack starts tracking STS-119 Discovery!

2009-03-16T11:08:00.002+09:00

STS-119 Discovery was launched successfully on Sun Mar 15 19:43 EDT. Congratulations!

And GoogleSatTrack now starts tracking STS-119 & ISS.
GoogleSatTrack - International Space Station & Space Shuttle Discovery STS-119

Have fun!

Satellites collision simulation on GoogleEarth

2009-02-13T13:20:00.004+09:00

The Iridium communications satellite and Russian COSMOS satellite collided on Feb 10 16:59:00 UTC 2009.
ref.Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Two satellites collide in orbit

I've calculated the orbits of the collided satellites and put them on GoogleEarth.

The time & place of the collision.

Time:16:56:00 UTC
Longitude: 97.9
Latitude: 72.5
Altitude: 789.4km

If you've installed GoogleEarth, just load the KML file.

The animation starts 16:54:00 UTC, ends on 16:56:00 at the collision point. Vertical lines represents the time periods - 1sec from 16:55:50 to 16:56:10 and 10 sec in rest of the time.

Hello World! - Greetings to the planet

2008-12-20T13:13:00.000+09:00

URL: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/hello_world/

It shows "Good morning" or "Good Night" in Twitter public timeline on the Google Map with day and night boundaries. It follows the greetings in English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, French and German, it may covered 90% of twitter users.

Let's say hello to the planet!

Please note that if the other twitter client is working at a time, it may reach the request limit of Twitter APIs.

Starlit Night

2008-12-20T12:17:00.001+09:00

URL: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/starlitnight/

Starlit Night is online planetarium written in JavaScript.
The project is under early development phase.

Features

Written in JavaScript ONLY, no plug-ins required
Hemispherical starmap by perspective projection.
Scrolling & zooming by mouse dragging.
Stars, planets, sun, moon & constellations
Moon phase
Labels for stars, planets & constellations
Asterisms of the constellations
Azimuthal grids
Time & place settings
Permalink
User defined markers

Requirements

Firefox3, Safari3, Chrome
640pixel X 480pixel

Newer informations will be posted under the "StarlitNight" label.

GoogleSatTrack - satellite tracker on google maps

2008-12-20T11:02:00.000+09:00

URL: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/tracking

GoogleSatTrack is a online satellite tracking software based on GoogleMapsAPI.It shows the current position of the International Space Station (or various satellites in earth orbit) on Google Maps in real-time. Just open the page with your web browser and the map will center on the satellite's current location.

Features

Written in JavaScript, no plug-ins required
High accuracy (based on SGP4 algorithm)
Day and Night boundary
Ground Tracks
Latitude & longitude grids
User-defined satellites

Requirements

Browser: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and IE
Minimum resolution: 800pixel X 600pixel
Set your computer clock accurately.

Note

It is NOT a Google product.

Newer informations will be posted under the "GoogleSatTrack" label.