strozzascotte / Find SpaceX Ships

Published:

Version: 1.3.1+6e537e1 updated

Summary: Ease the finding of SpaceX ships on marinetraffic.com.

License: MIT; https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

License: GPL-3.0

![ASDS](https://imgur.com/85vQaF9.png)

Intro

For SpaceX fans who want to follow the journey of its ships during F9 recovery.

This script highlights Elsbeth III, GoSearcher and GoQuest on the embeddable version of marinetraffic.com (http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/embed/) and display their coordinates, speed and heading.

Note that the ids of the ships will change as the ships go near the coast and offshore again. A small update will be issued as soon as the new ids are known.

Screenshots

Screenshot 1: ship tracking.
![Screenshot 2: log.](http://imgur.com/cRLxekX.png "Screenshot 3": log.)

Updates

Version 1.3.1

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the script from detecting some ship at zoom level >= 15. (Thanks /u/david_edmeades for pointing this out.)
  • Refresh time for data is now shorter and varies according to zoom level.
  • Refresh time for projected location now 10" (useful at higher zoom levels).
  • Click on ship name in the table to center the map on the ship.
  • Other minor tweaks and code optimizations.
  • Note that no change to offshore ids was needed so far (Eutelsat 117W B & ABS 2A Campaign).

Version 1.3

  • Added optional visual track and waypoints for the recorded locations of the ships.
  • Added optional projection of the current position based on the last known speed and location.
  • Added optional marker for the expected location of the ASDS at landing.
  • Data are now stored locally and won't be lost if you accidentally close the browser window.

Version 1.2

  • Added Ship's log. Simply let the browser open and the script will record ships' positions and display a log table for easy Cut & Paste.
  • Fixed an inssue with months in UTC dates. (Thanks /u/robbak.)
  • Other minor tweaks.

Version 1.1

  • Added color coding as suggested by /u/robbak
  • Corrected minor format error for UTC times
  • Other minor tweaks.

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