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Wakusei Planets惑星

The Sun, the planets and their moons as a clean line drawing, a shaded realistic drawing or a painted surface map, with real sizes, tilt and rotation, and the moons where they are at any date and time.

Wakusei is the Japanese word 惑星 for a planet. About the name

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Reference · Ten famous spacecraft (Voyager, New Horizons, Pioneer, Cassini, Galileo, Juno, Parker Solar Probe, Webb): facts, events, and where each is at any date from launch to the end of its record

spacecraftLightTimefunction

How long a radio signal takes from the Earth to a craft (or back), at a moment, in seconds: the distance from the Earth over the speed of light.

Import it

import { spacecraftLightTime } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/spacecraft";

Definition

function spacecraftLightTime(id: SpacecraftId, when: When): number

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
id"voyager1" | "voyager2" | "newhorizons" | "pioneer10" | "pioneer11" | "cassini" | "galileo" | "juno" | "parker" | "webb"

The craft.

whenWhen

A Date or milliseconds since 1970 (UTC).

Returns

number

One-way light time in seconds.

Examples

import { loadSpacecraft, spacecraftLightTime } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/spacecraft";

await loadSpacecraft("voyager1");
console.log((spacecraftLightTime("voyager1", Date.UTC(2026, 10, 8)) / 3600).toFixed(1), "hours");
24.0 hours

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets 0.24.0.