Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Project Da Vinci
Send your video into space on a time capsule in a satellite
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Project Da Vinci launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Today my collaborator and I are releasing issinrealtime.org, a multimedia project that plays back every day onboard the ISS. Feedback welcomed. Here's an article that was just released about it: https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102725a-iss-in-real-t... I also wrote a "making of" post about it here: https://benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-real-time/
Oct 2025 · issinrealtime.org · its alternatives →
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A Billion Dreams▲152Send a name & dream to space on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
2023 · abilliondreams.org · its alternatives →
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2020 · callumprentice.github.io · 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 →
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Me and a few friends made this design document as part of our entry to the UK CanSat competition where a high school team is required to build a probe to be launched. The probe must serve some purpose, and ours was to map the temperature and pressure of the air at different altitudes. We had the opportunity to launch it a week ago and you can find the video of our launch here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16bsLzxjP7OWRqVvCB62cLv7QYLR... During the launch we reached 400m above sea level, and the can pulled 70gs successfully. The parachute and can stayed intact.…
2025 · drive.google.com · its alternatives →
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Astronaut▲139You're an astronaut. Click to watch random videos in space.
2017 · astronaut.io · its alternatives →
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You can be an architect of the future
2016 · jpl.nasa.gov · its alternatives →
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I made this site using R3F (https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber), a React renderer for 3JS (https://threejs.org/). The celestial bodies are Three.JS meshes. I used loaders (namely 'useLoader' from R3F and 'GLTFLoader' from 3JS) to import 3D models, such as International Space Station. More on loading models in R3F: https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/tutorials/loading-mod... I've future plans for this side project. It would be great to hear from the HN community before diving into them. Enjoy! P.S: Getting an empty…
2022 · spaceinbrowser.com · its alternatives →
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Space Legacy▲69New Space Adventure from the creators of HOOP
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Discover an AR time capsule and journey back to 1980
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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WTF NASA▲92What the f%&k has NASA done to make your life awesome?
2016 · wtfnasa.com · its alternatives →
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Inspiring the next generation of spaceflight, interactively
2021 · its alternatives →
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Over the past few months I had the privilege to be part of a team of artists and researchers who assembled a hypothetical message from ET for A Sign in Space, a project founded and directed by media artist Daniela de Paulis. The message was loaded on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting Mars. On May 24th it was beamed back to Earth and received by several radio telescopes during a live performance. Since then, a community of people from all walks of life has been attempting to make sense of the message. If you enjoy the challenge, join the discord channel…
2023 · asignin.space · its alternatives →
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Loren Grush to explain how reusable rockets work.
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Lightyear.fm▲98See how far the songs of the past have traveled in space
2015 · lightyear.fm · its alternatives →
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Inspirational story of Peter Diamandis & spaceflight mission
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The past and the future of space exploration.
2015 · waitbutwhy.com · its alternatives →
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I built this because measuring my age in years felt boring—I wanted to see the kilometers. The first version only used Earth's orbital speed (~30km/s), but the number moved too slowly. To get the "existential dread" feeling, I switched to using the Milky Way's velocity relative to the CMB (~600km/s). The math takes some liberties (using scalar sum instead of vector) to make the speed feel "fast," but it gets the point across. Under the hood, it's a single HTML file with zero dependencies. No React, no build step. The main challenge was the canvas starfield—I had to pre-allocate the…
Jan 2026 · cosmic-odometer.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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