statsbadge-iss

Where the space station is, for statsbadge.

An orbit of ground track either side of it: forty-five minutes behind and fifty ahead, dimmed where the station is in the earth's shadow. The day and night terminator is washed over the half of the world the sun is not on. The marker takes the accent when the station is in sunlight and goes quiet when it is not.

Under the map: how high, where, how fast. Whether it is sunlit, and how many people are aboard.

Positions come from wheretheiss.at and the crew from open-notify.org. No key and no account.

Install

statsbadge ext add iss
statsbadge install

Then add an ISS page in the config UI. It works with nothing configured.

Settings

Notes

The track is asked for rather than guessed: the position feed answers a list of timestamps, so twenty positions either side of now arrive together and there is an orbit to draw the moment you turn to the page. It is refetched every two minutes, and the station walks along it meanwhile.

The terminator costs nothing extra. The position reply carries the sub-solar point, so the curve is drawn from two numbers with no almanac and no clock to trust.

The map is the badge firmware's own, shared with statsbadge-quakes, so running both costs one copy of the coastlines.

iss.lat, iss.lon, iss.altitude and iss.speed are in the frame too, for a text or dial page drawing a number and not a map.