Where Are All the Space Robots?!
summary
A searchable site listing over 30 active space probes that updates with near‑real‑time distances using an undocumented NASA DSN XML feed. Built with Jekyll for content, a Python scraper (xmltodict) running on Heroku with a Redis store and a Flask JSON API that polls every ten minutes. The site orders probes by measured range in km, shows which dish is talking to which craft, and demonstrably works in production.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:22How many people are in space
- 1:50Website
- 3:08Jekyll
- 3:33Data
- 7:06HTTP Headers
- 7:57XML
- 8:09Python to the Rescue
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