NASA Observatory

Independent NASA data fleet · live

The mission picture, all in one view.

Seven zero-infrastructure projects turn NASA’s public data into clear, current signals—from the Sun and near-Earth space to visual history, new worlds, and tonight’s citizen-science missions.

Open live network See how signals move

Contacting fleet Seven status endpoints · one shared contract

Connected projects
07
Automatic refresh
15 min
Status contract
01
Backend services
0

Live fleet telemetry

Seven instruments. One horizon.

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Fixed celestial anchor · 2029

A close pass.
A precise prediction.

Asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass inside the geostationary satellite ring on 13 April 2029. It will be visible to the naked eye—and it is not a threat.

Follow the planetary-defense watch
Target / 99942 APOPHIS Tracking

Closest approach in

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2029-04-13 ≈ 21:46 UTC ~32,000 km altitude

Transparent by construction

Signal without the machinery.

Each project owns its science, wording, and refresh schedule. The Observatory only reads the small public status record each one publishes.

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    Source-owned

    Authoritative inputs

    NASA and JPL datasets are collected by the project that understands that domain, then reduced to a bounded public signal.

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    Honest state

    Freshness stays visible

    Every producer declares its own cadence. Stale data, a degraded upstream, and a missing feed remain distinct states.

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    Repo-native

    Static all the way down

    Each project publishes a small status record; GitHub Pages serves it. No server, database, tracking layer, or LLM sits in the path.