About Mobile Launch Info

	SpaceLaunchInfo.Com About Mobile Launch Info

It's quite simple, really. I'm not always near my computer when I need to reference our web site, SpaceLaunchInfo.Com. As a result, I created the Mobile web site M.SpaceLaunchInfo.Com. Of course, if I thought this page was useful, wouldn't others? So I made it publiclly available. My motto for decades has been "Share The Knowledge".

The URL is a little long to type on a mobile phone numeric keypad, so the page is also accessable from S.PH2.Mobi. "S" for Space, and PH2 as an abbreviation for PHone PHriendly. The dotMobi TLD (Top Level Domain-name) is meant to be used on web sites for mobile devices. Both links go to the same directory in our webspace, making for easier web maintenance.

This web page is designed to be read on Mobile Phone Web Browsers. On a desktop browser, hit Alt-Space followed by "R". If it's still too wide, hit Alt-Space "S" and use the left & right arrow keys to adjust the width of the window. Hit <enter> to accept

When you see a numeric list of topics on our Mobile Web Pages, you can use the hardware numeric keys of your telephone's dialing pad to choose the menu items. It uses a Hypertext component called "accesskey" (do a View => Source if you're interested in how it's done). M.Yahoo.Com/mail uses this, if it detects you're not using a touchscreen phone.

Links to SpaceFlightNow.Com
One of the resources we use to maintain up-to-date information is information from SpaceFlightNow. The problem is, SFN uses Frames on it's mission status update pages. The updates are in a central Frame in the page. Most mobile phone web browsers cannot handle frames, so our Menu Choices 8 & 9 read the direct page that the frame pulls in. It's how you can stand along the Indian River on launch day with only your mobile phone, and know what's going on.

On our Mobile Menu page, We've set up the convention that Menu Choice 8 will always be the next manned mission from the Kennedy Space Center, and Menu choice 9 will be the next unmanned launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, just across the Bannana River from KSC (We'll probably change this once Shuttles stop flying). At the end of the lines with these menu choices are "+" characters, hyperlinked to the full Mission Status page. Again, these are there for my convienience, and left as a device for anyone who happens to find them. On a desktop browser, I can simply type in "S.PH2.Mobi", and click our links to get to these pages when I need to. It's faster than bookmarks, especially when I'm on someone else's computer where they don't have these pages in their bookmarks.

Our Free Text Message Launch Status Service
is available via UPOC.Com, a company that alows users to set up text message "Comunitties Of Interest". UPOC used to stand for "Universal Point Of Contact", but is now considered just one of those "made up Internet words". The trick is that most services are available by using the SMS (Short Message Service) Short Code 8672 (with the letters U-P-O-C on the numbers.

While there is no charge for our Launch Status text message service, your standard carrier rates and charges for text messages apply. If you follow a web address link in a message, then data rates will apply. We realize that not everyone has a text message package on their phone, so we try to hold down the number of texts we send out. On launch day, however, we have to send out messages whenever there is an unexected hold in the count, with information on when the new launch time is expected to be. See the PHone PHriendly UPOC Page for more information about UPOC itself.

Visiting this page from your phone? Press the digit of the menu choice on your phone dial, and it will choose that menu item.

1 Canaveral Spaceport Launch Schedule
2 Launch Viewing Mobile FAQ
3 Heavens Above, helping people view satellites from their own back yard.
4 Fresh Keps Menu, Links to Keplerian Elements, the mathematical variables used by Satellite Tracking programs.
5 Directions to Space View Park, a great place to view Space Shuttle and Ares launches.
6 Launch Schedule in eBook format., click the link to get free reader software for mobile phones and PDAs

Information from SpaceFlightNow.Com:
7 Space Flight Now Launch Schedule, covering launches around the world.
8 Manned Launch Menu Choice. This link goes back to the main page.
9 Unmanned Launch Menu Choice. This link goes back to the main page.

* SpaceLaunchInfo.Com regular HTML Main Page.
0 Call Ozzie, dial 321-Liftoff on your mobile phone.

Keplerian Elements are mathematical variables used to calculate the orbits of celestial bodies, such as planets and space satellites. The links above will allow a user to download the "Keps" easily for use in programs like Pocketsat+.

Ham Radio via ISS, Ham stations heard on Packet Radio via the International Space Station. (best viewed on a desktop computer)

This web page was optimized for viewing on mobile phone web browsers by:

PhonePhriendly.Com

Intl Space Station
orbital location

The Launch Schedule is available in Palm E-Book format for Personal Digital Assistants and Smartphones.
Click here for free e-book reader software for Palm Pilots; Windows, Windows Mobile, Macintosh, and Symbian OS (Nokia).

Information on attending space launches can be found on the SpaceLaunchInfo.Com Launch Viewing FAQ, which answers Frequently Asked Questions about the subject.

This page is http://M.SpaceLaunchInfo.Com/about.html

It is maintained by RobertOsband, the fellow who first suggest that the Space Coast of Florida should be reccognized as the Countdown Capitol of the World by having Area Code 321. Service began on 1999 November 01.

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