alt.hn

4/2/2026 at 11:16:05 PM

Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

 https://artemis-ii-tracker.com/

by codingmoh

4/7/2026 at 11:25:41 AM

I like the web site (even if it is vibe coded), it would be cool to add some 3d graphics, maybe using webgl for showing the position of Artemis II

by goran-j

4/3/2026 at 7:38:32 AM

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.

by jug

4/3/2026 at 3:24:04 PM

Just to be clear one glance and I can tell issinfo.net also used claude code

by solsane

4/3/2026 at 9:46:30 AM

Absolutely ... https://issinfo.net/artemis is the one I use.

Great sense of scale, lovely to see the Moon apparently a long way from the "intercept" point, and it seems "accurate enough".

by ColinWright

4/3/2026 at 8:20:24 AM

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.

by spuz

4/3/2026 at 12:36:54 PM

I did not use claude code, but codex, and I am fetching space weather from NOAA SWPc, trajectory, distance, speed, and comms delay are computed from NASA's published Artemis II mission plan parameters, not pulled live from NASA telemetry. Also, the current discrepancy is likely caused by the orbital phase and reference model being used. tracker shows about 192,000 km, while NASA's AROW shows about 80,000 miles, which is roughly 129,000 km. it is off by around 60,000 km. difference can happen because the spacecraft is in a elliptical orbit and different trackers may be using different assumptions, interpolation methods,... or reference points for the trajectory

by codingmoh

4/4/2026 at 3:03:37 PM

I really appreciate the idea and effort you put into building an Artemis 2 tracker dashboard. As an aerospace engineering student, I genuinely appreciate the information, the idea, and the effort that went into building this. The trajectory shape itself is technically a bit off, but honestly that doesn’t really matter here because the vast majority of people using the site aren’t aerospace engineers and aren’t looking for a perfectly modelled trajectory. They are looking for an accessible way to understand all the relevant information.

Also, it’s pretty common to see people immediately label projects as “AI slop.” There are quite a few folks who react that way right away, like @jug did here. That reaction is somewhat expected given how quickly AI has taken off and the existential/job-security concerns many computer engineers are dealing with right now, including the massive layoffs at Google 1-2 years ago.

At the end of the day, using AI to help write code is not that different from hiring a freelancer or contractor to implement parts of a project. The core idea, the decision to build it in the first place, the design choices, the testing, and the overall direction still come from humans. Those parts require thought, effort, and ownership, and that deserves appreciation. Either way, I think projects like this are valuable for sparking curiosity and making technical ideas more approachable to common people, which is always a good thing.

by halfblood1010

4/3/2026 at 12:35:43 AM

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.).

by dvt

4/3/2026 at 6:20:59 AM

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.

by pmontra

4/3/2026 at 12:47:53 AM

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

by YCprince

4/3/2026 at 2:42:50 AM

Claude always makes sites look this way.

by noman-land

4/3/2026 at 4:40:13 AM

What way? Genuine curiosity

by willio58

4/3/2026 at 4:47:23 AM

This sort of bluish dark mode with monospace fonts. Similar accent colors. Not sure where it got this style from.

by noman-land

4/3/2026 at 10:58:55 AM

I think it's because the UI sucks, like really bad. Why is there a CRT-type line in the background going down constantly. The mission timeline has weird colors that make no sense. Some graphs don't even fit their parent element. And so on.

I don't care if its vibe-coded but if you looked at this and thought "yeah that looks good", it only shows how bad you are at UI.

These types of interfaces are cool if you're like 12

by altmanaltman

4/3/2026 at 9:48:52 AM

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.

by sph

4/3/2026 at 1:02:57 AM

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by rickracconai

4/3/2026 at 1:51:35 AM

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.

by 0x38B

4/3/2026 at 12:01:04 PM

I am fetching space weather from NOAA SWPC.

Trajectory, distance, speed, and comms delay are computed from NASA’s published Artemis II mission plan parameters, not pulled live from NASA telemetry.

Also, the current discrepancy is likely caused by the orbital phase and reference model being used. Right now the tracker shows about 192,000 km, while NASA’s AROW shows about 80,000 miles, which is roughly 129,000 km. So yes, that is off by around 60,000 km.

difference can happen because the spacecraft is in a elliptical orbit and different trackers may be using different assumptions, interpolation methods, .. or reference points for the trajectory.

by codingmoh

4/3/2026 at 3:57:24 AM

You're absolutely right! Let me go ahead and fix that now...(the sound of credits disappearing...) /s

by 4ndrewl

4/3/2026 at 2:45:21 AM

Here's the official one, presumably with correct data: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

by p1mrx

4/3/2026 at 3:12:22 AM

Sadly I just see an empty progress bar?

by rkagerer

4/3/2026 at 4:53:47 AM

Imperial units. I feel dirty now.

by Tepix

4/3/2026 at 6:36:51 PM

What's the joke?

There are two kinds of countries: countries that use metric, and countries who have put a person on the moon.

by runako

4/5/2026 at 8:16:54 PM

Looks like I hit a nerve.

Doesn't NASA use the metric system and only when they interact with the public they provide imperial units?

by Tepix

4/6/2026 at 3:12:15 PM

It's a joke.

by runako

4/3/2026 at 3:45:29 AM

Not available on mobile on account of WebGL

by uoaei

4/3/2026 at 4:03:59 AM

Works fine for me on mobile.

by DiabloD3

4/5/2026 at 12:30:52 PM

Using Chrome? Firefox and derivatives is a no-go.

by uoaei

4/3/2026 at 1:47:42 AM

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.

by Gagarin1917

4/3/2026 at 12:24:06 PM

Hey, I've responded before, I need to update the visualization: Iam fetching space weather from NOAA SWPC.

Trajectory, distance, speed, and comms delay are computed from NASA's published Artemis II mission plan parameters, not pulled live from NASA telemetry.

Also, the current discrepancy is likely caused by the orbital phase and reference model being used.

Right now the tracker shows about 192,000 km, while NASA's AROW shows about 80,000 miles, which is roughly 129,000 km. So yes, that is off by around 60,000 km. Difference can happen because the spacecraft is in a elliptical orbit and different trackers may be using different assumptions, interpolation methods,... or reference points for the trajectory.

by codingmoh

4/3/2026 at 12:28:14 AM

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?

by washbasin

4/3/2026 at 12:40:24 PM

+1 for imperial units

by eddyg

4/3/2026 at 1:25:37 AM

A few more trackers:

https://artemistracker.com/

https://artemislivetracker.com/

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

Aside... so impressed with the UI on the posted version.

by O1111OOO

4/3/2026 at 8:27:20 AM

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?

by rhubarbtree

4/3/2026 at 2:04:07 AM

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

by rozab

4/3/2026 at 3:04:05 AM

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.

by zamadatix

4/3/2026 at 9:44:51 AM

Here's the one I use: https://issinfo.net/artemis

by ColinWright

4/3/2026 at 1:40:35 PM

The actual Earth and Moon are still not nearly to scale though!

by rozab

4/3/2026 at 2:22:36 AM

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.

by groggo

4/3/2026 at 1:12:52 AM

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.

by GrifMD

4/3/2026 at 3:13:24 AM

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.

by zamadatix

4/3/2026 at 2:48:56 AM

The closest they get to the moon is about 8000km/5000 miles above the surface over the far side

The trajectory depicted has them hitting the moon; it should instead show them passing 2+ lunar diameters behind the moon.

by Polizeiposaune

4/3/2026 at 2:17:19 PM

thank you, I'll consider that

by codingmoh

4/3/2026 at 2:00:38 AM

Is the MET right? They launched about 29 hours ago but it says 1d18h

by dap

4/3/2026 at 2:42:52 PM

Very cool! Nice to put it as a side window for live status (which do not take too much attention compared to YT)

by danielszlaski

4/3/2026 at 10:06:52 AM

Why is a horizontal line constantly falling down? It’s so distracting, I feel like I can focus on the content

by thiht

4/3/2026 at 12:39:10 PM

Okay, sorry, I meant to make to emulate physical monitor

by codingmoh

4/3/2026 at 12:29:59 AM

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?

by jamesbfb

4/3/2026 at 1:03:47 AM

very cool! How did you get the data?

by arnav7717

4/3/2026 at 4:02:55 AM

Did they not just launch yesterday and they are already half way there? Am I wrong?

by desireco42

4/3/2026 at 8:42:44 AM

They are right now only 44000km not 170000km, it's ai hallucinated slop (unless... NASA app is also ai slop...)

by dvh

4/3/2026 at 3:53:09 AM

This got vibed coded AF

by mattfrommars

4/3/2026 at 6:06:31 PM

Pretty cool! This mission has me very excited, but it didn't even occur to me the I could keep track of all this data about it in real time, so thanks for sharing.

BTW, 90% of the comments being about whether this was made with AI or not (and personal opinions on it) is much MUCH worse than it being made with AI. The lack of downvotes for submissions is not an invitation to bring negativity to the comments; if the submission doesn't provide value to you, just move along. Make another post with your opinions on AI and see how many care to read it.

by Unai

4/4/2026 at 3:16:19 PM

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by halfblood1010

4/5/2026 at 9:33:01 AM

forgot the subject , who made it :)

by rockdino

4/3/2026 at 12:10:22 AM

Nice, thanks.

by Smoosh

4/3/2026 at 12:46:51 PM

is it updating live data via

by lexcamisa54

4/3/2026 at 7:21:14 AM

I can't see crap. Fonts too small, everything too dark.

by gitowiec

4/3/2026 at 1:24:23 AM

Nice job

by OOHehir

4/3/2026 at 7:58:50 AM

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by Meld5792

4/3/2026 at 6:47:38 AM

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