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Track the location of the ISS via iss-now.json

Home Page:http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json

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ISS

Fetches live coordinates from the International Space Station from an open source API, http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json. Reponse yields current latitude and longitude of ISS. Polls lat/longs on an interval and normalizes it to an image of earth.

The result is taking the 3d position of the ISS and plotting it against a 2D map of Earth, and as time progesses, the path of the ISS is visualized. Map depicts next time ISS will fly overhead my location in North Carolina

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Track the location of the ISS via iss-now.json

http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json


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