FlightTracker & Crew Roster

A means of dynamically displaying craft & crew information online for vessels in Kerbal Space Program

These files use a mix of HTML, JavaScript, JQuery and ASP with MSAccess databases to create a dynamic page to allow users to browse various craft a player has in KSP to see very specific details about the vessel, including resources, orbital information, crew members, etc. This provides a way to create persistence for any KSP role-play.

Included also is the code for displaying crew rosters that let people find out more information about the astronauts that make up your space program.

The Flight Tracker is fully compatible with touchscreens on mobile devices.

The following KSP mods/apps are used to provide the data the Flight Tracker and Crew Roster require:

• KSPTOT
• Final Frontier
• VOID
• FAR
• kOS

The following JavaScript libraries are used:

• Leaflet
• Leaflet.KSP
• Sylvester
• Leaflet.Label
• Numeral
• Tipped
• Codebird
• Spin.js
• iOSBadge.js
• Rrose
• Leaflet.Fullscreen
• Leaflet.GroupedLayerControl
• GeoGebra

Blank template MDB Access files are included for both crafts and rosters.

Getting Started

Basically you need to install the folders to your server and feed them a database to reference with ?db=[name] appended to the URL pointing to either craft.asp, body.asp or roster.asp. The databases included in the Flight Tracker that are not labeled as examples are required to be present for the pages to load. Search the files for db = which is where the databases are opened and change the relative path to point to where you store your database tables if you don't want to keep them in the public directory. See the current KSA Flight Tracker to get an idea of how things work together.

Known Issues

• [FT] Mobile Safari does not reset the drop-down list boxes on page unload, so using the Back button will have them still set to whatever was last selected
• [FT] Sketchfab model viewer does not autoplay when it is shown, nor does it stop when it is hidden unless manually stopped first. Sketchfab has already responded to us about some API extensions to allow us to do this eventually (link)
• [FT] Captions cannot be automatically enabled when a video goes fullscreen on mobile devices. We've not found a way to get this to work
• [FT] There are actually two caption tracks, one for current event the second for the name, but apprently only one can be shown on iphone in fullscreen
• [FT] When left in the background for a while, the countdown timers for maneuver nodes both in the events box and the map pop-up fall way behind and don't ever catch up once focus is returned to the window, necessitating a refresh
• [FT] A slight gap is visible between orbital paths on the dynamic map where switching to the next orbit color
• [FT] Craft popups on ground maps are always 500px wide - despite this being set via a maxWidth property, Leaflet does not size down the popups when they contain content smaller than this width when this property is changed from default
• [FT] Update/New badges can be cutoff from the menu if the craft name is just long enough to not wrap and leave little room at the end of the line to show the badge (use jQuery to add nbsp; when badge is shown?)
• [FT] Notification badges are too large in the menu and overlap. Smaller sizes are being looked into
• [FT] Leaflet popups will overlap and are not smart enough to position themselves to stay off other popups
• [FT] Engine/Thruster overlay during a maneuver only has a single image and can't account for rotation
• [FT] Chrome Only launch video replays do not always load fully

Future Fixes/Changes/Additions

• [FT] New sat/terrain/biome maps for OPM
• [FT] Updated biome maps for stock planets
• [FT] Ground tracking for rovers. Resolution of movement dependent on whether max zoom level can be increased
• [FT] 2-3 additional zoom levels for dynamic map
• [FT] Allow surface maps for gas giants just for the sake of vessel/moon plotting
• [FT] note the number of crew aboard and use that to calculate in real-time the remaining duration for any included life support resources (need to decide what life support system to use first - USI or TAC)
• [FT/CR] back-end interface that allows creation/modification of records through the website when detecting the missionctrl cookie for updating craft and crew databases
• [FT/CR] push notifications?
• [FT] Animate rover tracks? (for drawing old drive paths upon page load, not as a means to do "live" pathing)
• [FT] Be able to tell if a trajectory intercepting the atmosphere is an aerobrake or re-entry
• [FT] Detect trajectories that hit the surface on airless bodies and show a landing mark
• [FT] Fix issues with Sketchfab model support (button display for new hoverbox behavior, start/stop on show/hide)
• [FT] Multiple thruster/engine images to account for image of current craft rotation position
• [FT] Proper terminator display taking orbital inclination into account (Leaflet.Curve)
• [FT/CR] Communicate with the website to display update badges on the menu items for Flight Tracker and Crew Roster
• [CR] when hovering over a ribbon, clicking will show previous types of that ribbon below the current one earned so ppl can hover over them for dates and info. Moving mouse off will hide them. Border needed around them or they will just seem to replace any other ribbons below
• [FT] Playback controls for ground track data. Include in popup windows to let ppl jump to beginning or end of track and see a real-time update of data (center popup, move along track)
• [FT] Allow vessels menu to organize by vessel subcat and then year subcat and even month subcat
• [FT] Upgrade to the latest version of Leaflet using a new maps library
• [CR] Reverse-order mission listing so newest is at top
• [FT] Hyperbolic orbit rendering in GeoGebra figures

Change Log

v4.12 (8/6/17)

Fixes:

• [FT] Pins loaded from ground tracks are now properly detected when multiple links are included in the description
• [FT] More finagling to account for whether daylight savings is in effect or not when displaying times in various places
• [FT] Times to next SOI change are now converted properly
• [FT] Times for ground track data points are now converted properly
• [FT] Instance where the original KSA start date was being used to calculate current UT is now set to present KSA start date
• [FT] Removed some debugging code left over from v4.10

Changes:

• [CR] Ages are now calculated as days and converted to years to be shown with extra precision without rounding (42.65 is now displayed instead of 43 ahead of their birthday)
• [FT] Tooltips and selection for planets and vessels have been replaced by the new 3D-rendered system figures. All associated known issues have been removed
• [FT] Using a dev version of Codebird to access more recently-added twitter functions to manipulate Collections
• [FT] When a vessel's orbit exceeds 100,000s and the user is given the option to render a full orbit, only 1 full orbit is rendered instead of 3 by default, and the new URL parameter &orbits=1 is added, which can be changed to a higher number & page reloaded for more
• [FT] String data for ImgDataCode can now use the ascent string to add current altitude to the position marker (see (database docs)[https://github.com/KSAMissionCtrl/FlightTracker/wiki/Database-Documentation#craft-data-fields])
• [FT] If altitude is used as well as moving the ascent marker, the map zooms in to keep it and KSC in view

Additions:

• [CR/FT] Next Launch time in the Events window can now handle a HOLD event during the countdown, which it detects by a blank field for the EventDate of the launch (see database docs)
• [CR] New stat to track: Time in Space, a subset of Mission Time, which includes anytime spent anywhere outside Kerbin's atmosphere
• [FT] 3D-rendered system views using GeoGebra with massive props to Syntax from the KSP forums for figuring out all the maths
• [FT/CR] timeOffset variable contains the offset in seconds between the current time reported by JavaScript (which uses a constant start value) and VBScript (which uses the server system clock, which apparently cannot stay synced properly) - this ensures the event clock shows the proper time, but needs to be updated prior to any upcoming events that require to-the-second timing
• [FT] Aircraft ground tracks can now be shown in the Inactive Vessels listing and scheduled to appear when their data is valid

v4.11 (2/13/17)

Fixes:

• [CR] Tooltips now show always atop the ribbons & status descriptions so mobile users get a better experience when zoomed in to that section of the page

Changes:

• [FT/CR] Twitter streams no longer have headers or footers
• [FT] Known issue of the borked tooltips in the center of the window updated. No fix possible at this time

Additions:

• [FT/CR] - New feature added to the wishlist - Communicate with the website to display update badges on the menu items for Flight Tracker and Crew Roster
• [FT] The static orbital display box now shows time to Pe if the vessel has yet to reach it while on a hyperbolic/SOI Escape trajectory. It also is removed from the box when Pe is passed

v4.10 (2/5/17)

Fixes:

• [FT] Adjusted the number of milliseconds that was used to get the current time in javascript, which was causing conversion from UTC to local time to be off by one hour
• [FT] SOI mark is now removed properly after a craft traveles out of the SOI when viewing it on the surface map
• [FT] No longer comparing a string to a number in one instance when looking for a database entry before a given UT time

Changes:

• [CR] Crew rollup-text now has to be clicked to show rather than just rolling up on a mouseover (same behavior now as craft description roll-up text)
• [FT] Flight Template database updated to remove deprecated fields
• [FT] Orbital calculations for Mean Anomaly now fully deprecated and removed, only looks for database field with True Anomaly values
• [FT] Tooltips showing craft/mission/body data are now much better formatted, with the <h1> styling removed and replaced with custom CSS in a <span> tag so it doesn't have the large vertical padding the <h1> tag comes with, better aligning the name of the craft/mission/body with the image to the left
• [FT] Tipped.js tooltip creation changed so that I could use the class='close-tooltip' option in the new tags listing feature without the tooltip closing when the mouse moved off the tag image

Additions:

• [FT] Template database for surface tracks
• [FT] Surface map can now show ground tracks. This is initially designed for aircraft flights but can be expanded later for rovers and other surface travel. Allows for links in the mission description to display markers on the map in groups or individually, with multiple links in the description supported. Map markers can be removed individually. This should also be the perfect groundwork for enabling real-time mission tracking in the future.
• [FT] When viewing a system overview map, clicking on the tag image to the right of the name now shows a tooltip that lists all the bodies in the system, so you can select one to view tagged entries on the website and flickr. This not only makes it easier to get to tagged content, but more accessible as bodies without moons or vessels in orbit do not have individual pages yet from which you can get a link to just that tagged body. The only exception to this is when viewing the Kerbol or Inner Kerbol systems, in which case the tag link will search for content for just Kerbol.
• [FT] New known issue: Firefox Only if a tooltip appears in the very middle of the screen, it can sometimes appear to the left and not be formatted properly (too narrow)

v4.9 (1/6/17)

Fixes:

• [CR] Updated the FF ribbons as some newer ones were missing and causing broken image links in crew profiles
• [FT] Dynamic tooltip for a vessel shown on the surface map now properly displays the default "no image" image

Changes:

• [CR] Mission reports are what update the mission counter so when scheduling mission reports ahead of time to ensure mission count is accurate, the report itself may not yet be created by the time the link is available. If this is the case a message box will pop up to inform the user the report has yet to be uploaded
• [CR] "Current Mission" label has been changed to "Current Assignment" to better align with the use of Programs. "Current Status" will now be used to define missions
• [CR] "Docking Operations" field will now only display for pilots
• [FT] Removed some cookie debug code left over from v4.8
• [FT] "Last Updated" time field is now dynamically created based off the UT of the record, deprecating the LastUpdate field of craft databases
• [FT] Orbital calculations are now derived from True Anomaly rather than Mean Anomaly, allowing for greater precision and easier orbit value input
• [FT] A single image is now allowed to be used for the static orbits display if two images are not needed
• [FT] Updated orbital data only will no longer trigger an update badge for vessels

v4.8 (12/12/16)

Fixes:

• [FT/CR] The tag search for crew/vessels now excludes tagged archived images from the results when looking for content on flickr
• [CR] Ribbon image path was pointing to an old location and wasn't picking up ribbons added to the newer location now in use
• [FT] Launch date/MET tooltip fixed again to now hopefully, finally, handle all various scenarios that involve a launch with multiple scrubs when looking at past events
• [FT] Dynamic map terminator display now updates in real time when viewing a launch location map

Changes:

• [CR] Ribbon tooltip maxwidth set to 150 for better formatting
• [FT] New database templates added with blank records to replace files that actually had future KSA information available in them
• [FT] Countdown clocks in use anywhere now read "L-" instead of "T-"

Additions:

• [CR] A new field for tracking the distance a kerbal has traveled. Is not additive, each entry should include total travel distance not change in travel distance
• [FT] Vessels can now display patches to the left of their titles which will link to the vessel/program pages on the website and also show the full-sized patch image in a tooltip

v4.7 (11/25/16)

Changes:

• [CR] DB template updated

Additions:

• [CR] The total amount of science each crew member collects on missions is now shown in their stats view

v4.6.2 (11/23/16)

Fixes:

• [CR] Search algorithm for Mission/Status/Rank filters now properly sorts out copies and only shows one of each type of entry for the filter

v4.6.1 (11/23/16)

Fixes:

• [FT] Mission status tooltip now shows "mission ongoing"/"yet to launch" status text again when mission end time is included but scheduled for a future time
• [FT] Vessel menu was using dbUT instead of UT to check for available vessels, which meant looking back at previous events would only load craft valid at that event time rather than the current time. Now all crafts for the actual time are loaded.
• [FT] Local time conversion for Last Update time now properly handles daylight savings offset

v4.6 (11/22/16)

Fixes:

• [FT] Craft tooltip in orbital display now shows "N/A" when the craft's signal delay is returned as 0, which means it has no connection
• [FT] Code to create the various static image angles of craft now better handles craft that have no images at all

Changes:

• [FT] Craft displayed in the orbital overview tooltips can now use the default "no image available" picture
• [FT] Orbital overview/body overview pages can now also use the &ut parameter to make everything on the page move ahead in time not just the DB queries
• [FT] Updated the tagging replacement code to properly format tag requests to flickr, and also to handle "." in craft names

Additions:

• [FT] Debug code to see if I can determin why the FT/CR is doing something to my cookies - suspect tho it may be FF
• [FT] Craft names can now include additional data in () that will not be included in tag requests
• [FT] Mission Report entries can now be scheduled instead of needed to be added manually at the time the mission report is published online

v4.5.1 (11/8/16)

Fixes:

• [FT] Setting the whole page to the time of &ut now only happens if the event is in the future and not when looking back at past events

v4.5 (11/8/16)

Fixes:

• [FT/CR] Clock now shows proper time offset for current daylight savings time. Will probably break again since I just manually added an hour back to the clock. Will keep an eye on it, still don't understand why it broke to begin with
• [FT] Stylesheets properly linked for display of the dynamic maps, no longer using the kerbalmaps.com domain to grab the stylesheets
• [FT] When setting up a dynamic map for a body that doesn't have a solar day parameter filled out (0) the terminator display will not try to render itself
• [FT] Was incorrectly using bDrawMap as a flag for whether the map is ready to be drawn (waiting on orbit calculations), instead of whether the map should be drawn (no dynamic map available for current body)
• [FT] Okay I think I finally nailed the launch date display so that it can handle scrubs and show the actual launch date/time when looking at past events
• [FT] Moved the definition of UT for JS code up a few lines to the top of the start of JS code so all code that needs it can use it. Don't know how the hell this didn't throw an error before

Changes:

• [FT] Hyperbolic/SOI escape orbits will now search along their length for any Ap/Pe events and mark them
• [FT] When using the &ut flag for peering ahead in time the whole page now thinks it's currently that time, not just the database
• [FT] Craft image database field can optionally be left blank
• [FT] Added a default offset to the dynamic orbit text box so that it only needs to be offset relative to the content area, not the top of the page
• [FT] Adjusted the Ap/Pe markers slightly upwards to not get in the way of being able to select points on the orbit line. Also adjusted the popup window anchor position

Additions:

• [FT] New default image for craft with no pictures (mainly asteroids)
• [FT] New tooltip for the Last Update time that shows the time in the user's local time

v4.4 (10/9/16)

Fixes:

• [FT] Craft page, like body page, now lists filter option for Inactive Vessels when no active vessels are available
• [CR] Crew with ribbons in their DB but none yet ready to be displayed now still show "No Ribbons Yet Awarded" message

Changes:

• [FT] Dynamic map is broken until KerbalMaps is returned to service or self-hosted, so code in place to handle that
• [CR] Tired of seeing 0 for service years and changed it to count months of service instead of years, but still shows it in years
• [CR] Instead of showing HTML when more detail is needed on a Mission or Status, text is displayed in a tooltip
• [CR] All tooltip text for Mission, Status and Ribbons is now centered by default

v4.3 (9/22/16)

Fixes:

• [FT/CR] iosbadges new release now properly handle '+1' property when the badge starts with a value of 0
• [FT/CR] Update badges can now properly handle when no craft are available to check for updates, even if craft exist in the database (they are inactive or scheduled for the future)
• [FT/CR] Failing to parseInt() values read in from AJAX to check for cookie dates meant I was comparing strings instead of integers, which did not always produce the desired result (for example: '23' > '100' = true!)
• [FT/CR] No idea what the hell I was doing to get the "offset" between VB and JS time, but it was whack. I now simply set the JS time to match the UT-0 time (9/13/16 00:00:00) and add the number of seconds since then as computed by the VB function dateDiff now everything is just equal. If that made more sense
• [CR] Missing default variables for event calendar were causing definition errors
• [CR] For some reason the UT++; update was missing entirely from the update loop, so the event clock time was never updating. Who knows how long that's been broken...
• [FT] Moons were not properly setting the HTML id tags for their data windows, which meant they were sharing the same data fields and clicking on a moon would pop up an info box that could contain data from another moon. Now all moons display their own info
• [FT] Orbital plots will no longer be calculated and rendered if no surface map is available for the body
• [FT] Removed an unneccesary call to findMoons() that was causing moon orbits to be calculated & rendered twice
• [FT] Moving back/forward in UT time to show past orbital diagrams no longer affects the DB calls made for data that loads craft in the menu, so that information is always based on the current UT
• [FT] Minor code formatting issues (tabs) made neater, some leftover console.log debugging outputs removed
• [FT] To solve the problem of a tweet being published with a bad link to a craft page, the bad DB name is checked for and the user is automatically redirected to the proper craft page
• [FT] Mission launch date countdown tooltip now counts down again as it no longer improperly detects a mission end event
• [FT] No more errors for bad planet references when looking in the DB for the body a craft is orbiting/landed on
• [FT] Craft in pre-launch or non-orbital state can now properly calculate signal delay dynamically
• [FT] Requesting data from craftinfo.asp no longer causes an ASP timeout from infinite DB search loops when no records are in the DB
• [FT] Requesting data from update.asp no longer causes a DB access error when craft in the catalog are not yet active and have no body reference

Changes:

• [FT/CR] All dates for calculating UT time have been reset to the new Day 1 = 9/13/16
• [FT/CR] All twitter timelines update to use both the new account timeline and collection timeline embed code
• [CR] Repositioned tooltip on Full crew Roster so it wouldn't cover up practically the entire crew member's image when it pops up
• [CR] Astronaut's current "Assignment" has been changed to "Mission"
• [FT] The loc map variable can now be used more than once to drop as many pins on the map as you want - does not display popup if more than one pin is dropped
• [FT] The surface map can now account for vessels that are listed as belonging to a body but are not in orbit, and thus should not be rendered with orbital paths
• [FT] The Key listing for system diagrams is no longer a required DB field, and will not be shown if data is omitted
• [FT] Clicking back and forward in the system orbital diagrams moves the page to the top of the diagram for a smoother transition
• [FT] Vessels menu can now handle situations where there are no craft at all in the database, or there are craft but none are currently active, or there are craft but non are currently active and some are inactive
• [FT] In cases where no craft are active around Kerbol, the system entry is always included in the menu so users can easily navigate back to the "home" page of the system browser
• [FT] Surface map vessel updates each tick are now done in reverse order - was just switched around to debug the issue of moons overwriting each other's popup data and has no effect on end user either way
• [FT] Craft overlay dots showing part data tips now show on initial page load and hide after a second so people can see that they are there
• [FT] Visited links are now colored red

Additions:

• [CR] Astronaut's names & title now appear in the page title/tab
• [FT] Body/System name now appears in the page title/tab
• [FT] New js function lets me pull and separate data from URL parameters that share the same name
• [FT] A new build of the Leaflet.KSP plugin allows the surface map info box to show Lat/Lng, slope degree, terrain height and biome. Any of these (except Lat/Lng) can be removed from the display if that body is defined in the database as not being scanned for that data

v4.2.1 (4/21/16)

Fixes:

• [FT] Hack for showing image tooltips in Chrome now applies to any browser that is not Firefox
• [FT] Non-Firefox part tooltips no longer hide the part identifier dots & rotate buttons when they are displayed
• [FT] Map made 5px taller to better position it to fully cover the static images in non-Firefox browsers
• [FT] List boxes are no longer calling the change() event on page load
• [FT] Non-Firefox browsers that can't show the Scheduled Event tooltip on mouse hover now show the tooltip text in a an alert window when the Scheduled Event item is clicked
• [FT] Side padding to resource icons adjusted so they & the scroll buttons all fit within a single table row in Safari

v4.2.0 (4/16/16)

Changes:

• [FT] Chrome now properly shows rich HTML tooltips for bodies, craft and parts on image maps

v4.1.0 (4/12/16)

Changes:

• [FT] Surface Map layer control now labels the two groups of overlays available
• [FT] Ascent path now changes color during separate phases of flight (booster ascent, coast, etc) and also drops markers for defined events (fairing jettison, MECO, etc)

Additons:

• [FT] Surface Map can go fullscreen
• [FT] Phase and EventMark fields added to the ascent data table

v4.0.0 (4/2/16)

Fixes:

• [FT/CR] Pages now have their <!DOCTYPE html> defined at the very top
• [FT] Dynamic map no longer skips over opening up the vessel popup on load when calculation is done in a single batch
• [FT] Chrome support for launch videos is now much better
• [FT] Resource mass value is now formatted correctly
• [FT] A few things that were supposed to be implemented in both craft.asp and body.asp actually weren't
• [FT] When checking if it's possible to see a future maneuver node, check is now done based on the length of the rendered orbit instead of always against the maximum-allowed length

Changes:

• [FT/CR] Can now load an empty directory URL or handle not being passed a db value
• [FT/CR] Backwards-compatibility with v3.0 and earlier databases has been removed
• [FT/CR] JS libraries consolidated into a single folder to be shared
• [FT/CR] Many properties are now read in as delimited text strings rather than pairs of recordset fields
• [FT/CR] Menus now always link between the two
• [CR] Roster can be viewed as individual entries or a complete listing of all entries
• [CR] Individual entries can now be viewed with their own twitter timeline
• [FT] Static orbit real-time display now also shows data for events (maneuvers, SOI exit, etc)
• [FT] video can be hidden/shown during archival playback
• [FT] Launch video can allow camera changes to happen prior to launch
• [FT] Image showing KSC flags can now be scheduled to update
• [FT] Crew display now includes the date they boarded and the MET aboard
• [FT] Orbital Period display now includes the number of orbits to date around the current body (or the number of orbits total around a previous body)
• [FT] Resource icons are now restricted to a single line and scroll left/right when more than 5 need to be shown
• [FT] Extended vessel description text no longer opens when hovering over the vessel image until the header is clicked
• [FT] Both solar array output and signal delay are now calculated based on the vessel's current distance from Kerbol and KSC, respectively
• [FT] Event reminders now use alert dialogs to steal focus or flash the tab
• [FT] dbCrafts is now dbCatalog and is used for storing a wider range of reference data
• [FT] Map close button is now an image above the Surface Map to make room for the layers control
• [FT] Flight Tracker directory is now /Tracker instead of /Flights
• [FT] Launch video no longer re-syncs every second prior to launch and instead re-syncs everytime the camera view is changed, when no one would notice if there occurs a jump in video
• [FT] Longer launch videos have to end 3s early to avoid the Freemake converter watermark
• [FT] All units are spaced: 100 km instead of 100km
• [FT] Static orbit display is now shown with a map button, orbit lines can now be clicked on to show the state of the vessel at that point. When hovered over, a popup shows the time the vessel will be at that point as well as the orbit number
• [FT] When a vessel is requested that can't be found, the user is redirected to the archive site to try and find it there
• [FT] Prev/Next seek controls for archival launch telemetry playback are spaced further away from the Play/Pause link to try and ease mobile usage
• [FT] Map now hides any and all controls/buttons when the mouse is no longer over it
• [FT] Map can allow more than one popup to be visible at once
• [FT] Events show the UTC time and date in addition to the countdown
• [FT] Dynamic map size increased, vessel image size decreased

Additions:

• [FT/CR] Tag icon next to body/kerbal/vessel name allows user to quickly fetch any images and website postings related to it
• [FT/CR] Wiki has been populated with user and developer documentation
• [FT/CR] Cookies are now supported to allow for numerous usability features, including saving optimal launch telemetry FPS
• [FT/CR] With cookies enabled, the user can see each time they visit what vessel/kerbal has been added or updated with new information
• [CR] For kerbals assigned a mission, you can see how long until the mission launches or how long the mission has been running
• [CR] A kerbal's activation date includes a tooltip with their number of service years
• [CR] Portraits have roll-up text on hover that includes additional background information
• [CR] Individual roster pages can be opened in a popout window
• [CR] Menu for browsing directly between profiles, with filters for sorting
• [CR] When viewing the full roster, tooltips provide quick details on each kerbal
• [FT] Large dynamic surface map shows flags, points of interest, anomalies, labels and orbital plots for any vessels and moons in orbit, as well as various base layers (biome, terrain, etc)
• [FT] Terminator display on both the Surface Map and vessel dynamic map shows the position of the sun and the terminator lines
• [FT] Vessel dynamic map shows where and when a trajectory will intercept the atmosphere
• [FT] Hyperbolic orbits can now be plotted and show when the SOI transition takes place. SOI transits also show for non-hyperbolic orbits that still escape the current SOI
• [FT] Vessel images can now be image maps that allow individual parts to be identified and tooltips shown on hover containing details
• [FT] Vessel images can now be rotated 90 degrees in both directions
• [FT] Vessel dynamic map and orbital data can show changes in trajectory in real-time during maneuvers
• [FT] Docking port data can now be shown for vessels that are docked, including which ports are open/occupied
• [FT] If one vessel is related to another (Delivery Vehicle <-> Lander) this relationship can be shown
• [FT] A second orbit can be rendered on the dynamic map to show two vessels approaching for a rendezvous
• [FT] All maneuver nodes now show the planned orbital trajectory, and that planned trajectory also shows if the craft will exit the SOI or enter the atmosphere
• [FT] Body diagrams showing the orbits of planets/moons/vessels now have rich tooltips for all of them providing details at a glance
• [FT] Can retrive the current UT as calculated by the Flight Tracker by passing showut=true to craft.asp - output to debug window
• [FT] Maps DB added to contain all the data needed to display things on the Surface Map

v3.0 (11/17/15)

Fixes:

• [FT] Ground plots now handle map edges properly - a much nicer algortithm now cuts off lines at the edge of the map in all instances before they wrap across to the other side and doesn't care if the craft is moving in a prograde or retrograde orbit
• [FT] Time synched between JS and VBscript - the methods used to get the time elapsed from a certain date in javascript and vbscript can return results that differ by as much as 20-30 seconds. The offset is now recorded on page load and applied throughout all operations involving calculated elapsed time, favoring the result given by vbscript's dateDiff()
• [FT] Current event always recognized - it is now properly recognized when coming from a past event to an event from the Next Event(s) list (ut query string included in the URL) whether this event is in fact the current event (the event you would get if you removed ut from the URL). This is important as before the flight tracker assumed any inclusion of ut in the URL was indication of viewing an event that occurred in the past
• [FT] body.asp now contains character encoding information
• [FT] Missing options minZoom, maxZoom and zoom added to all leaflet map initialization. Not only does this solve the problem where maps would fail to even render, the + zoom button will now grey out when max zoom is achieved
• [FT] Event calendar was incorrectly referencing the UT passed by URL querystring when available instead of the UT calculated for the current time, so it was showing past events
• [FT] Event calendar was setting bLaunchCountdown and bManeuverCountdown to true by default, is now properly defaulting to false and switching to true only when an upcoming event is displayed
• [FT] Viewport scaling removed to allow tablet/mobile devices to load the page from a more zoomed-out perspective
• [FT] formatTime() now uses the absolute value of any number passed to it to prevent errors where number is negative
• [FT] All JS functions shuffled about to be defined before they are called to play better with Chrome browsers
• [FT] VBscript now returns to proper error checking after it has tested for possibly-unsupported databse fields
• [FT] When viewing a past event that includes a launch time which was scrubbed, the actual launch time now finally properly displays in the tooltip as originally designed back in like v1.0
• [FT] Several JS variables that were not being properly set to default values and throwing reference errors because the ASP code that creates them did not execute due to a logical condition now have default values that are created regardless
• [FT] In some instances the Distance Traveled field would fail to show estimated distance
• [FT] Traveling to other crafts via the menu now properly preserves certain variables in the URL
• [FT] latlon was being referenced by index at times when it had no data
• [FT] Craft marker popup was displaying the same cardinal directions for both Lat and Lng
• [FT] Page no longer refreshes when the end of the orbit is reached if a maneuver node (which would end the orbit plot) just fired and instead waits for the next event to trigger a refresh

Changes:

• [FT] Greater timer accuracy and monitoring - using a method proposed online the code no longer uses setInterval() for timed callbacks but instead calls itself with setTimeout() after it has processed and monitors the time it took to carry out its operations and when it needs to call itself again to remain on time with whatever interval it is set for. This not only keeps things accurate when users are viewing the page, but if they tab off and the page's CPU priority is reduced, when they come back they will see things catch up to the current time
• [FT] Quick event jumping - The [<]Prev and Next[>] buttons that only went forward/backward a single event at a time have been replaced with drop-down list boxes that contain the entire history of the vessel to make it easier to go back in time for vessels that have been in operation for a while. Future-planned events and maneuvers are still implemented when available in the Next Event(s) drop-down list and shown via tooltip or if on a touchscreen via an alert. Any future-planned event is shown only when viewing the current event for that time, and not any past events
• [FT] Asynchronous orbital data calculation - Orbital data calculation is now wrapped in an inline function and batch-called every millisecond instead of run as a single loop. This takes slightly longer for large orbits but has the benefits of no longer locking up the browser entirely waiting for it to complete, shows a snazzy loading bar and makes it feasible to expose the option to render all 3 orbits for craft with very long (100,000s+) orbital periods
• [FT] Because the asynchronous batch loading of orbital data breaks the linear flow of the original JS loading code, renderMap() now exists to complete the loading of the map once the orbital data calculations have finished
• [FT]/[CR] Paths and URLs changed to point properly to new kerbalspace.agency domain and file structure. String replace also utilized to automatically change links pulled from DB
• [FT] Removed second footer line with obvious instructions from body overview page
• [FT] Event calendar now displays "None Scheduled" when lacking a future event
• [FT] Text on landing page for mobile users attempting to view a popout has been updated to no longer say mobile devices are unsupported in controlling various aspects of the flight tracker
• [FT] Clock now shows UTC in the title instead of the time, as iOS devices were outputting the full month name instead of shorthand and causing a text wrap of the current time
• [FT] formatTime() can now optionally return seconds with 5 significant digits (00.000) instead of a whole number
• [FT] Fancy JQuery fade events are now rampantly applied across the entire page to show/hide pretty much everything that needs to be shown and hidden including notification boxes, the map lat/lng key (now only visible when the cursor is over the map), the dynamic map itself, and more
• [FT] The page will not auto-update to a new event if the user is viewing a past event under the assumption that the user is purposely on that past event for a reason and wants to stay there
• [FT] Documentation updated for all recordsets
• [FT] The page title now includes the craft name and current event title
• [FT] The values for deltaV and vessel mass can now be ommitted from the database fields and the page will display 0
• [FT] The communication signal delay is now formatted into yy:dd:hh:mm:ss.ms instead of displaying raw seconds
• [FT] The ImgDataCode field no longer has to remain empty to trigger an ascent telemetry event, as it can hold the size information for the three HTML5 video files. It must still remain empty to load older ascent telemetry
• [FT] The note that appeared below the Inactive Vessels menu is now in a tooltip cited next to the menu header
• [FT] Vessel template DB now contains new ascent data table

Additions:

• [FT] Real-time video and telemetry streaming - this deprecates the original launch telemetry functionality that auto-updated the entire page every 15s with new data (still viewable on older craft). Now, the page stays loaded and JQuery updates telemetry data, which is initially read from a database that contains values for a set interval (0.5s, 1s, 5s, whatever) and then linear interpolation fills in the rest to be played back at up to 30FPS. FPS throttling allows the page to lower the FPS if it detects the launch time is falling behind real time, keeping older devices in sync during live launch streams. Video can be created to load at any point before the launch and play through to any point during the launch and supports all three major HTML5 formats. Video captions are supplied for devices that cannot play video inline. Mobile/tablet users are warned of the video size they will need to download. Once a launch occurs it can be viewed again in archive mode that allows the ability to seek through the telemetry data. A post-launch survey collects user data and feedback to help improve the system. During a live launch the main twitter timeline will be displayed so tweets pushed out during the launch are shown (within 30s) and users can interact directly through the widget
• [FT] Sketchfab model viewer support - unfortunately this is a very premature feature as the Sketchfab KSP exporter remains in beta status at the time of this release and is not capable of handling modded craft files very well. Where avaiable, the Sketchfab icon will appear over the craft description box and allow the user to switch between the 2D image/description and the 3D model viewer. The craft model can also change from event to event as the craft changes configuration
• [FT] Dynamic pre-launch map - the event prior to launch telemetry can now hold a dynamic map that shows the location of the launch site as well as basic information about it
• [FT] ASP check for mobile browsers
• [FT] Codebird.js allows the flight tracker to send automated tweets
• [FT] Spin.js allows the flight tracker to show custom loading spinners where needed
• [FT] craft.asp now initially loads loads all the time with a background "loading" image that is then removed via JQuery when all the heavy ASP processing at the top of the page is completed (mainly seen during launch telemetry interpolation)
• [FT] OS and browser information is now collected and made available to JS to enable/disable functionality of certain features not globally supported
• [FT] If there is a launch scheduled in the event calendar and the user is on another craft page or looking at an older craft entry an alert box will pop up 5-mins prior to the launch to give the user the option to jump to the craft page of the launching vehicle
• [FT] A new auto-refresh check now reloads the page to re-render the map when new orbital data is detected
• [FT] A tooltip can show up for launch and maneuver events if a description has been added to them, providing quick information about the event
• [FT] A sample Excel spreadsheet is included showing telemetry data

v2.4 (9/30/15)

Fixes:

• [FT] origMET now always contains a value so it doesn't end up breaking js when it's assigned in situations where no launch time is defined (TBD launch dates)
• [FT] Use of on error resume next was causing unintended fall-through of logic code such that future event description text was being accompanied by "Click to View Maneuver Node" even when no node was linked. Lack of short-circuit logic in VBScript necessitated a further nesting of the code logic. Also added an else branch that was missing for in the event of no future maneuver node
• [FT] Sending the absolute value to formatDate() now for the case of updating countdown timers, which have negative MET values

Changes:

• [FT] Flight Template.mdb now contains the new NodeLink field introduced in v2.3
• [FT] Removed "example" from databases that are required by body/craft.asp to actually function. Kept in all records to let people see what's doing what and hopefully not cause any horrendous errors out of the box when setting things up
• [FT] body.asp now too contains and uses the formatTime routine, which has also been modified in craft.asp to display a leading 0 for single-digit seconds. This will prevent a small glitch where if the user is looking at an open tooltip that counts from single to double digits the tooltip will not expand and the seconds will wrap down below (outside) the tooltip
• [FT] drawMap has been replaced by MapState which provides a much clearer understanding of what the area below the craft image and stats is being used for. Also removes the possibility of the HTML string that was before being plugged into drawMap contianing double quotes and breaking out early from the js assignment operation causing an end of line error
• [FT] Pulled the js definition of UT out into the main body of the map drawing code because otherwise it was coming up undefined in sitautions that didn't involve orbital plotting and thus killing js execution
• [FT] The check for whether the code should be updating map data every second was over complex and was simplified with the new MapState variable
• [FT] Moved code checking the state of AP/PE and maneuver node markers every second inside the section that only runs if a dynamic map has been drawn

Additions:

• [FT] A new routine toTZString in body.asp will convert UTC time to a specified time zone so anyone visiting will see the same time displayed on the KSC clock
• [FT] A clock now shows the local KSC time, auto-adjusts for daylight savings and updates every second
• [FT] A new events database allows for displaying the next launch and/or maneuver on every craft/body page so that anyone visiting the flight tracker will see what is upcoming. These events link to the craft page in question. In the case of maneuvers, when the craft page is loaded if the node is visible on the map it will automatically be shown after the craft popup closes. Otherwise a notice will display to let the user know it's not yet visible. The page will also auto refresh if no launch or maneuver is currently available but a later-scheduled one comes up

v2.3 (9/29/15)

Fixes:

• [FT] Maneuver node update code now tracks time & counts down properly
• [FT] The JQuery code to update the map craft marker was left outside the if case testing whether the map was even drawn on the page

Changes:

• [CR] Ribbon box can now properly display empty if no ribbons are yet awarded to the astronaut
• [FT] body.asp now handles tooltips the same way craft.asp does, where mousing over them when moving off the element they are anchored to will close them and where tooltip closing action depends on touch support
• [FT] Menu tooltips for planets and moons now show up to the right, since names will never be too long
• [FT] Menu tootlips for vessels are now aligned with the vessel icon, and have a max width so they do not extend out past the edge of the menu, also allowing for more verbose vessel descriptions to be shown
• [FT] Moved the map delayed-show setTimeout call out of the body header and down past the orbital calculation code, so that any delay caused by a lengthy calculation of a long orbit doesn't affect the timer. This also has the added benefit of allowing the map to show with the craft tooltip displaying actual data and not the default values used when the popup is first created
• [FT] Switched to a better method of determining whether or not a recordset contains a certain field by using On Error Resume Next now that it's necessary to check for more than one additional field
• [FT] Updated documentation for the Craft Data recordset
• [FT] Removed uneccesary code for tooltip addition to the Next> image that would never be executed anyways
• [FT] Un-tabified all source files so they show up better and more consistently in Github
• [FT] Craft info box now only stays open 5s after map is shown instead of 10
• [FT] Code updating the craft vessel marker location is now properly placed with the rest of the craft data update code
• [FT] When drawing orbits, if a visible maneuver node is detected the map will terminate orbit rendering at the node and not draw any orbital lines after that
• [FT] Event callback added to maneuver node map object so the popup updates immediately when it is opened instead of waiting for the global update tick
• [FT] When the vessel marker reaches a maneuver node on the map, the node is removed, the vessel marker no longer updates and opens its popup to inform the user an automatic update will happen shortly with new data

Additions:

• [FT] A link to the Github source code is now included in the footer of both craft and body pages
• [FT] Future event descriptions can now link to future maneuver nodes with a new field NodeLink in the Craft Data recordset. When this is done, if the maneuver node is visible on the map the Next> event link will allow the user to click it, which will display the maneuver node popup, thus locating it on the map

v2.2 (9/26/15)

Fixes:

• [FT] Incorrect path for popout link called an old orbital test script instead of the current craft page

Changes:

• [FT] Moved now and currDate outside of the map-loaded-only code so anything can access them in the update function
• [FT] URL query string refresh code completely removed (breaks auto-refresh of ascent data but future launches will use js update anyways)
• [FT] Auto-refresh enable/disable link removed

Additions:

• [FT] Documentation for the new Flightplan recordset that contains maneuver node information
• [FT] Maneuver nodes can now be displayed on the dynamic map, will only show up if visible along the currently-drawn orbit(s)
• [FT] Instead of a preset timer to refresh the page, smart page refresh will now reload the page when either [1] the craft marker reaches the end of the currently-drawn orbit(s) [2] a maneuver node becomes visible along the orbit(s) [3] the next scheduled event occurs

v2.1 (9/22/15)

Fixes:

• [FT] Moved <!DOCTYPE html> tags to the very top of the documents where they belong
• [FT] Inactive Vessels listing now shows up properly in body.asp
• [FT] formatTime function was missing a semicolon statement end
• [FT] Next button, in the instance of having a next event, was still using a regular tooltip instead of tipped.js
• [FT] Orbital plotting now handles polar orbits much better
• [FT] A math error was causing the estimated orbital distance to be calculated incorrectly

Changes:

• [FT] New link for a better image map creation service
• [FT] body.asp now makes better use of tipped.js pop ups (hide on mouseover mainly)
• [FT] Number formatting used for some additional craft data displays that can now accomodate increased precision (Ap/Pe velocity, Avg Velocity, resource mass)
• [FT] Cleaned up and made slightly more robust the code that handles the type of static/dynamic map being displayed for the current event
• [FT] More widespread adoption of tipped.js tooltips, dynamically converting older tooltip use so dozens of records don't need to be modified
• [FT] Dynamic map won't show cursor location info (which comes up undefined) until the cursor is actually over the map for the first time

Additions:

• [FT] Dynamic maps for flags, can be displayed for any body via image map <area> having id="flags" and includes a special case for flags located around KSC
• [FT] Included documentation for the bodies and flags databases in body.asp
• [FT] Added an area at the top of the page in craft.asp and body.asp for showing debug information via JQuery
• [FT] Can page back through orbital states in the main Kerbol System and Inner Kerbol System views to see planets moving over time (less applicable to planets themselves, to which you can still link directly to certain times if needed)
• [FT] Image mapping tool used now linked in the footer for body.asp
• [FT] Viewport meta tag added to craft.asp to ensure proper page scaling
• [FT] Bodies that do not have dynamic maps (Kerbol, any added bodies) now show real-time orbital information in a text box