High-Level Project Summary
iNSPACE makes it easy to share the excitement of space discovery right alongside NASA astronauts and scientists. iNSPACE helps you connect to a global science community of students, teachers, and subject matter experts for real-time science collaboration on your favorite upcoming missions. Space missions are so far from Earth with such a long delay for data it makes it hard for people to collaborate on the science in real-time. Our solution reduces the delay with Blockchain technology partners like Surrey and by connecting you to the mission planners and STEM topics months before they launch. As the scientific data rolls in, you are able to respond and collaborate in real time.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
The iNSPACE website is the recruiting and sales tool for the iNSPACE user-app. The app we are developing in Flutter with SDK Android studio lets public users follow their favorite missions and comment as observers of scientific task data. The app also empowers users to apply for student or expert credentials to gain access to the behind-the-scenes NASA data that would not be possible without the being approved by mission directors.
Students and experts also gain access to collaboration features like messaging and watch parties that connect them to NASA astronauts, mission control, and the STEM professionals that make it all happen.
The app is intended to bring the experience of scientific exploration to the user by puting the mission into the pocket of the user. Once you are following a mission, and aware of the team and the scientific objectives, it is much easier to be a valuable contributor and even an innovator in support of the mission.
The benefit from NASA is there has been a renewed public interest in space exploration so if we can accelerate the pre-launch collaboration of LUCY, PSYCHE, CADRE, or ARTEMIS missions, we can foster public interest months and years in advance so that when the next step is taken on the lunar surface, the iNSPACE app can be drawing NASA api data and notifying the experts, the students, and the public of all the many scientific discoveries and advancements.
With Blockchain technology partners, we beleive we can acheive a low-latency high speed collaboration experience that will benefit from months of preparation before humans land on the Moon.
Next steps are to keep developing the app and onbaord users to test a scenario of applying for student or expert credentials. We also can interview principal investigators from CADRE, or LUCY to see how iNPSACE might benefit their process.
Space Agency Data
- The app intends to curate the most relevant public data and blending it with the most appropriate "expert or student" approved data so there are multiple tiers of interaction with science teams
- We were inspired by the Apollo Flight data
- Dragon Inspiration 4 video feed
- Inspired by real-life interviews with JPL PUFFER team
- Lunar Olympics events that astronauts performed on Apollo 13 and 14
The future design will incorporate much more scientific data that will be tagged and sorted according to mission team experts, technology topic, NASA taxonomy, and time stamping.
Future user-flow will show how the Apollo 14 science mission (where they attempted Lunar Olympics) could have gone much worse andthe real-time collaboration of iNSPACE could provide rapid and high volume observation with rapid prototyping or debugging from a response ready network of student and expert users.
Hackathon Journey
The journey was epic. I reached out on IG about forming a team and Reid responded. I was scrolling through the chat and found Antonio and although we have only worked a short time together, we have found encouraging precedents, and developed exciting prototypes.
References
Figma
Flutter
Android SDK
Firebase
Squarespace
Google Slides
iPhone
Windows laptop
Tags
#lunar, #collaboration, #student, #community, #experts, #moon, #inspace, #app, #website, #artemis, #cadre, #lucy, #psyche, #missions
Global Judging
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.