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Orbital Echo

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Orbital Echo is a custom browser new tab page inspired by minimal dashboard-style tabs, but built around a live "mission control" layer: the background and a dedicated widget rail pull real NASA data — Astronomy Picture of the Day as a dynamic wallpaper, current space weather/solar activity from NASA's DONKI API, and next ISS pass overhead — instead of generic news. On top of that sits a full productivity layer: multi-engine search, a todo manager, customizable shortcuts, a command palette (Cmd+K style) for fast navigation, theming, and persistent local storage — all with a custom-built, distraction-free dark UI.

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Orbital Echo — a custom browser new tab page that replaces the blank tab with a live space briefing: NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day as the background, real-time space weather from DONKI, and the next visible ISS pass over your location. Also has draggable shortcuts, a todo list, multi-engine search, and a ⌘K command palette. Built with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS + Vite.

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devlog: Orbital Echo — a new tab page for space nerdsBuilt a custom new tab page for the Stardance nasa-page mission instead of the usual blank tab. Every new tab now shows:NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day as the background (changes daily)live space weather (solar flares + geomagnetic storms via NASA’s DONKI API)next visible ISS pass over your locationdraggable shortcuts, a todo list, multi-engine search, and a ⌘K command paletteVanilla HTML/CSS/JS + Vite, no framework. Fully custom CSS — deep space navy + gold “mission patch” theme with two alt palettes.Honestly the hardest part wasn’t the code, it was the typos. Hand-typed the whole thing and spent close to an hour going error → fix → error → fix through the console (getShortcut vs getShortcuts, classname vs className, a straight-up misspelled  tag). Also learned that third-party APIs like DONKI randomly 503 sometimes — not a bug, just space weather data being flaky.Deployed on GitHub Pages: https://adityajaindxb.github.io/Orbital-Echo/Repo: https://github.com/AdityaJainDXB/Orbital-EchoNext up: maybe a live ISS orbit tracker, will see if I have time.

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I have completed the index.html and started working on the modules which includes the theme.js before moving onto that segment I also worked on the main.js which involved importing init functions from the modules folder which ill complete soon :)

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