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24 alternatives to Made a little Artemis II tracker

Made a little Artemis II tracker for anyone else who is unnecessarily invested in this mission: https://artemis-ii-tracker.com/ For those of us who apparently need a dedicated place to monitor this mission instead of behaving like well-adjusted people.

The Artemis II Tracker is a web application that provides dedicated monitoring of NASA's Artemis II mission. It serves space enthusiasts and mission followers who want a centralized location to track the mission's… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.

  1. 1NA

    Apr 2026 · sunnywingsvirtual.com · its alternatives →

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    There are plenty of Artemis II trackers out there. I looked at a bunch and kept running into the same issues - some had data that didn't look right, it was hard to use on smaller screen, others felt overly complicated for what I actually wanted to know: what's the crew doing, where is Orion, how fast is it going. The best one I found was issinfo.net/artemis, which inspired a lot of the design. So I built my own. The part that was genuinely interesting to me was the data. Turns out anyone can query JPL's Horizons API for full ephemeris data on the Orion spacecraft - position, velocity,…

    Apr 2026 · artemis.fyi · its alternatives →

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    Moonshot ▲437

    Track the Artemis II mission from your Mac

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time tracking and insights for Artemis Moon mission.

    Apr 2026 · getartemis.web.app · its alternatives →

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    The other day I googled "Where is Artemis" expecting to find a tracker showing me the position, but instead getting results from news articles without live data. I eventually found the NASA tracker (https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/) and https://artemislivetracker.com/, but neither is optimized for mobile and frankly I found them both underwhelming. The domain (whereisartemis.com) was available and I thought "someone should use that", bought the domain and got started. Hopefully, this is something that can be extended for future…

    Apr 2026 · whereisartemis.com · its alternatives →

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    Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts. I have been using the tool, which I called Artemis, for several months. Every morning, I looked forward to my "morning paper" of blogs I love reading. There are no notifications, read vs. unread states, counts of posts, etc. Only the last seven days of posts are available. The colour scheme is changeable. Dark mode is supported. All popular feed formats are supported. There is no reading…

    2024 · artemis.jamesg.blog · its alternatives →

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    Orbit▲637

    Mission control for your community

    2021 · orbit.love · its alternatives →

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    Atlas of Spacefree▲770

    Hello HN! Sharing a recent side project of mine, the Atlas of Space, that I built out to explore the Solar System. As a long-time space nerd, I realized recently that I didn't have a good intuition on the scale, speed, and relative orientation of the celestial bodies around us. So over the break I built out a kind of spatial Wikipedia to click around and learn about planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun. The physics is all simulated in the browser using simple Newtonian mechanics. There's a lot left to do from here, including modeling objects in non-Keplerian orbits…

    2025 · atlasof.space · its alternatives →

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    This is a little hobby project that I hope you enjoy. You can see where the International Space Station is now, with live HD video from NASA, on a realistic 3D globe. The positions of the sun and moon are also accurate, though distances aren't to scale. The clouds are also near-realtime; I span that out into a separate project at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk, where the cloud images I create from EUMETSAT data are freely available. I've got more features almost ready to go, like the ability to turn off all UI, toggleable clouds and turning off the day/night cycle I'd love for…

    2024 · iss.matteason.co.uk · its alternatives →

  12. 12IH

    I built this because I was interested in the data. Didn't fully get it to what I wanted, but thought I'd share it nonetheless. Maybe someone has better data sources they could share! Turns out live ship tracking APIs are expensive so I manually just copied the json from https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.4/cente... I'll probably have an ai agent do the same thing on some cron interval, if this gets any fanfare. To actually know if the port is open without live ship tracking I found…

    Apr 2026 · ishormuzopenyet.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time space traffic monitoring

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Real-time Artemis mission tracking on one screen.

    Apr 2026 · artemis-live-dashboard.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I made Orbit, an iOS app that allows you to see the satellites, planets, and constellations above you in AR, on a 2D map, and on a 3D globe. The app includes more than 15,000 objects tracked by CelesTrack, together with their pass predictions, descriptions, and detailed orbital data. A searchable catalog of all objects is also available, as well as a built-in chatbot designed to answer any space-related questions you might have. This is my first published iOS app, so any feedback is greatly appreciated! App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772174570

    Jul 2026 · nagylukas.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Viberia▲146

    Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…

    May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →

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    T-Minus▲110

    Track SpaceX, NASA, ULA, Rocket Lab and other launches

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Aegir GPS/LTE/Iridium Tracker. Contribute to cepa/aegir-gps-tracker development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AstraPixelsfree tier, from $5/mo▲267

    ​​A pixel-art solar system at its real current positions.​

    Aug 2026 · astrapixels.com · its alternatives →

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    Track every API and tool you pay for in one place

    Apr 2026 · orbitmoney.io · its alternatives →

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    SatNow▲71

    Your one-stop app for tracking the ISS!

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    The unofficial SpaceX companion app 🚀

    2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, This is a follow-up to our original Show HN post, where I launched the first version of MBCompass. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155741 Since then, I've added several features based on user feedback and community input... I just released v1.1.9 of MBCompass - Minimal, FOSS compass and navigation app. New in this version: - Theme toggling (Dark/Light) controlled via settings - Fix current location arrow visibility - Compass accuracy alerts - Sensor status indicator - Explicit button for showing the GPS current location - Smooth transitions and many more..…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple ISS Tracker to notify you of visible passes overhead

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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