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[abarbarian]

Print Latest Space Events With Nextinspace In Terminal

 

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Curious to know what's happening in Space? Wondering when is a satellite or a spaceflight is going to be launched? Try Nextinspace, a command line program to print latest Space events in Terminal. Nextinspace uses Launch Library 2 API to fetch the details of upcoming Space-related events and orbital launches. All from command line! It is written in Python programming language and released under GPL-3.0 License.

 

There is a AUR package for Arch.

 

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nextinspace/

 

Screenshot of three different ways to show "launch" data.

 

 

Showing next five events,

 

 

Showing next five launches including a TOP SECRET one.

 

 

Enjoy.

[securitybreach]

Very cool

[abarbarian]

Strange ----- I can see no mention of the Icelandic launch in the Nextinspace lists

 

. Chicken nugget launched into space to celebrate Iceland’s 50th anniversary
 

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Having reached peak altitude, it then headed back towards Earth at 200mph (322kph), with its parachute deploying at around 62,000ft (19,000m) to enable a safe landing.

The altitude reached was reported to be equivalent to the height of 880,000 Iceland chicken nuggets.

 

Amazon are thinking of using this method for home delivery of nuggets.

[ichase]

I bet there is a way to use that in Conky    I am a big follower of space exploration.  I like this.

[abarbarian]

On 10/28/2020 at 11:24 PM, ichase said:

I bet there is a way to use that in Conky    I am a big follower of space exploration.  I like this.

 

If you can not find a way to make conky display the information easily a simple script and cron job or a systemd customised .service would be easy enough to do. Outputing the information from nextinspace to a transparent terminal displayed in a given spot on the desktop and updated daily should be simple enough.