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For now only Google Chrome works.

Caching the satellites position for a faster experience

While using the Satellite Situation Center API we noticed that the response speed was slow, and to get the data we need we had to send three different requests, one for the observatory list and two for the coordinates. The API has a limit of how many observatories you can query for each request, that's why we had to make two.

To fix this issue, we made a PHP script that saves the data in our server, so the mobile app just has to make one request, making the data visualization faster and using less data.

Here's the script: https://gist.github.com/BrianValente/7b9d368121156...

The script is executed every 15 minutes by a cron job.