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Twisol
38 days ago
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JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemer...
I love that the primary interface to Horizons is
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via Telnet ^_^ I hope they keep that interface forever.
nxobject
38 days ago
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It made me wonder how old the Horizons system is... I couldn't find any information. I would've guessed it dates back to the age of UNIX workstations and NSFNET, given the "e-mail" [sic] interface that produces either pure ASCII or PostScript.
zokier
37 days ago
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The public internet service is from 1996
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060036597
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