Beginning on June 12, 2025, the NASA Spot the Station website will not present ISS sighting info, per a message not too long ago despatched out. This implies no info on sighting alternatives supplied on the web site, nor will customers subscribed by way of the web site obtain e-mail or textual content notifications. As an alternative anybody concerned with this sort of info should obtain the cell app for iOS or Android.
Clearly this has folks, like [Keith Cowing] over at Nasa Watch, moderately disenchanted, attributable to how the web site has been this simple to make use of useful resource that anybody might entry, even with out entry to a wise cellphone. Though the belief is usually made that everybody has their very own private iOS or Android powered glass slab with them, one can consider communal settings the place an web café is the only type of web entry. There’s additionally the consideration that for youngsters an internet site like this might be a lot simpler to entry. They might now see this chance vanish.
With sensible cellphone apps hardly a alternative for an internet site of this kind, it’s simple to see how the app-ification of the WWW continues, at the price of us customers.
