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Chikyu Earth地球

A line-drawn globe of the world's countries that turns at the Earth's own rate, with an optional realistic Earth from space and markers for any place.

Chikyu is the Japanese word 地球 for the Earth. About the name

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Reference · Satellites: orbital elements in, positions out

Missiontype

One Space Shuttle flight, with the facts NASA's mission page gives (public domain; the pages and the day they were read are in NOTICE.md).

Import it

import type { Mission } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/satellites";

Definition

interface Mission {
    id: string;
    name: string;
    orbiter: Orbiter;
    launch: string;
    landing: string | null;
    crew: number;
    payload: string;
    payloadJa: string;
    noradId: number | null;
    hubble?: HubbleVisit;
    url: string;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
idstring

A short name for an address, lower case: sts-31, sts-41b.

namestring

The flight's name as NASA writes it without the dash in the middle: STS-31, STS-41B.

orbiterOrbiter
launchstring

The liftoff, ISO 8601 in UTC (1990-04-24T12:33:51Z).

landingstring | null

The landing, in the same form; null for STS-51-L, which broke up 73 seconds after liftoff.

crewnumber

The number of people NASA's page lists for the flight.

payloadstring

The main payload or job, in a few words.

payloadJastring
noradIdnumber | null

The NORAD catalogue number the flight's craft was given while in orbit (what Space-Track's element sets are filed under); null when it was given none.

hubble (optional)HubbleVisit | undefined

Set on the flights that deployed or serviced the Hubble Space Telescope (catalogue number 20580), which the flight's element file holds too.

urlstring

NASA's page for the flight.

Examples

import { missionOf } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/satellites";

const flight = missionOf("STS-31");
console.log(flight?.orbiter, flight?.launch, flight?.crew, flight?.payload);
Discovery 1990-04-24T12:33:51Z 5 Hubble Space Telescope deployed

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth 0.51.1.