Toriningen Blog

'SightSpaceStation' is a name of our service which helps you to sight International Space Station and other satellites with your naked eyes.It's currently available on 3 platforms,Web,Twitter and iPhone.Especially iPhone App is easiest to use because of its Argumented Reality,watch video to know how it works.

We are pleased to announce that Apple starts selling our iPhone application "ToriSat" today.
Refer its description below or open Apple iTune.We already have web-based service too.


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Intuitive and powerful satellite tracker to view International Space Station, Space Shuttles and others with your naked eye using augmented reality technology.
This simulates a way of satellite on top of reality through the camera and map.
Not only satellites,planets,fixed stars,galaxies,black hole,spacecrafts(Voyager1, Voyager2, New Horizons etc.),tweets and even world cities are shown as if earth was transparent.
Displaying geostationary orbits will also be very helpful when you adjust a parabolic dish antenna.
It connects Twitter too. So you can share excitements of finding satellites and weather conditions with others all over the world.

Features

* Simulates way of satellite on top of the camera view and the map.
* Display orbits and current positions of satellites and users' messages on the world map.
* Satellite prediction calendar
* Sends messages to Twitter (comments and weather)
* Twitter timeline (Your home TL and other users)
* Displaying fixed stars, galaxies, a black hole, spacecrafts, geostationary orbits and cities through Earth over the camera view (You can choose visibilities of each layers)
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see more detail on iTune
web-based ToriSat

@hisashin improved Satellite Web-API so that he can emulate live view of International Space Station at Google Earth.we will build same one for Space Shuttle STS-128 mission too.



Space Shuttle Visibility Forecast will also be available at our TwitterBots too.


Larger image(red=english,blue=japanese,yellow=comming soon)

And our Satellite Web-API is now opened to public.

@MaripoGoda has awarded at Google Wave Hackathon at Google Tokyo Office for building Google Wave Mindmap Gadget.
Its was also introduced at Google Asia Pacific Developer Blog.

We did TechTalk (Private Conference in Google) at Google Tokyo Office.So interesting!

an Googler invited us to Google Developer Day 2009 in Tokyo.We were so pleased with that about hundred people enjoyed our "Space Bike".Thank you so much for invitation!

GyaO(Japanese web media) introduced @MaripoGoda's hack "1024 Cheerleaders".So funny.

We demonstrated our "Space Bike" at Make:Tokyo Meeting03.@MaripoGoda made it controllable with HMD(Head Mount Display).
@hisashin also built Satellite Tracing Web-API and built world's smallest satellite tracking device with micro-computer and stepping motors.

maripo hacked a bycicle machine with Google Earth API.

We will show this item at Make:TokyoMeeting03 on 20Apr09.

shingo built some twitter clients which will notify you when and which direction the satellites (International Space Station(ISS) and Space Shuttle) can be watched from your city.
These bots will forecast daily schedule and visibility at 12:00,then alert 2hr,1hr and 10mins before each approach.

If you wish your city to be listed,please contact me by Twitter or mail.
It's also useful to use our ToriSat and just "set home" at your current location.


View Satellite Notifier Twitter Bots in Google Map (Red=English,Blue=Japanese)

• USA

@Sat_NY	New York
@Sat_LA	Los Angeles
@Sat_Chicago	Chicago
@Sat_Frisco	San Francisco
@Sat_Phil	Philadelphia
@Sat_Dallas	Dallas
@Sat_Miami	Miami
@Sat_Houston	Houston
@Sat_DC	Washington D.C.
@Sat_Atlanta	Atlanta
@Sat_Detroit	Detroit
@Sat_Boston	Boston
@Sat_Seattle	Seattle
@Sat_Indiana	Indianapolis
@Sat_KSC	Kennedy Space Center
@Sat_Googleplex	Googleplex,Mountain View

• Europe

@Sat_Madrid	Madrid,Spain
@Sat_London	London,United Kingdom
@Sat_Paris	Paris,France
@Sat_Zurich	Zurich,Switzerland
@Sat_Rome	Rome,Italy
@Sat_Lisbon	Lisbon,Portuguese
@Sat_Ams	Amsterdam,Netherlands

• America except USA

@Sat_MexicoCity	MexicoCity,Mexico
@Sat_Santiago	Santiago,Chile

• Asia and Oceania except Japan

@Sat_Taipei	Taipei,Taiwan
@Sat_Brisbane	Brisbane,Australia
@Sat_Wellington	Wellington,New Zealand

• Japan(japanese only)

@isstter	Tokyo
@isstter_sapporo	Sapporo
@isstter_akita	Akita
@isstter_sendai	Sendai
@isstter_knzwa	Kanazawa
@isstter_nagoya	Nagoya
@isstter_osaka	Osaka
@isstter_hiro4ma	Hiroshima
@isstter_fukuoka	Fukuoka
@isstter_naha	Naha