Site- "aggregator" of information about spacecraft

Two former NASA employees, Ariel Waldman and Lisa Ballard, launched Spaceprob.es , a site designed to track current information about spacecraft. The condition for getting into the list, which now has 29 positions, is the distance to the probe (it must be further than the orbit of the moon), and also whether it is in contact with it. In this case, the probe receives on the site a special card to which the current information about it is attached. So far, all the information on the site in English.



After clicking on the card, the user will be able to view a brief history of the launch of the device and the scientific results obtained with it. There is also a list of links that you should pay attention to when studying a question - usually these are NASA sites and media files, such as photos from a probe, infographics, videos on YouTube. Information about the distance to the probe is updated to the current state using the NASA Deep Space Network.



Although NASA and ESA resources already exist with a similar idea, they only describe the missions of their agencies. In the case of Spaceprob.es, the creators tried to “aggregate” significant information about spacecraft from around the world, inspired by the ideas of the website HowManyPeopleAreInSpaceRightNow.com .



The creators of the site have previously dealt with space projects. Lisa Ballard worked as a programmer for the Rings Node of NASA's Planetary Data System (a unit of SETI), Ariel Wallman participated in the creation of the already closed project CoLab (pdf). She is also a NASA advisor for the Innovative Advanced Concepts program , which is dedicated to financing conceptual research projects for future agency missions.