If you’re looking for something even more geeky than this to put up on a spare screen, checkout spacedashboard.com.
It combines two sets of views from the ISS, a map of the ISS’s current position, a chart showing the current solar activity and aurora predictions, a list of the names of everyone in space right now, and a map of currently identified asteroids:
Oh, and if you scroll down is has NASA’s DSN status page, which shows you all the individual antennae making up the Deep Space Network, and what spacecraft they’re currently communicating with.
I sneakily inserted this into the rotation of our ‘dashboard’ screen at work, which is supposed to show server statuses etc.
May I suggest Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopia by Hannah Peel for some great SPACE! music:
