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Mapping Rosetta

The European Space Agency's Rosetta space probe is now orbiting around comet 67P. On the 12th November the Philae lander was launched fr...

International Space Station Radio

Since April of this year the International Space Station has been broadcasting the ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment, a live video stream of E...

Real-time Cosmic Events on Google Sky

Over the years one of the most underused features of the Google Maps API has been the planetary map types and Google Sky map tiles. This is ...

Live Real-time Video of Earth

NASA is now broadcasting live real-time film of Earth as seen from the International Space Station. The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV)...

Fly Me to the Moon - Part Two

I've updated my Chang'e Moon Landing map to show a much closer view of the location where the Chinese lander Chang'e touched dow...

Fly Me to the Moon

Today the Chinese lander Chang'e touched down on the moon. It was the first soft landing on the moon since 1976. Chang'e landed in t...

Near Real-Time Satellite Images of Earth

On November 25th UrtheCast launched two cameras aboard a Soyuz rocket. The rocket delivered the cameras to the International Space Station w...

Mapping the Comet of the Century

In about two hours time Comet Ison will reach its closest approach to the Sun. It will be just 1.2 million km from the Sun and the solar hea...