Team Artemis

Awards & Nominations

Team Artemis has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

DELOS

High-Level Project Summary

As NASA gears up for the Artemis program and humanity’s first return to the Moon in over 50 years, the whole world is watching. Astronauts will communicate to scientists and researchers who will analyze this data for decades to come. Over a hundred mission controllers will gather to support crew members, keeping them safe through crucial, real-time situational awareness. Unfortunately, the current software bottlenecks communication and updates between flight controllers. Our solution is a collaborative, secure, multi-user database so experts have a panoptic view of every mission. DELOS has an intuitive interface to display (or hide) a live stream of universal mission logs.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/qjMA9SfiEcY

Link to Final Project

https://github.com/ArtemisGlobal/NASA_SpaceApps2021

Detailed Project Description

What does it do?

DELOS leverages an open data dashboard: a launchpad that integrates a console log with focused communication channels to allow for better collaboration between multiple users. Crew members, mission support and researchers can share live status updates and better manage flight systems operations for handling spot discussions and vectoring longer ones. The application receives and consolidates data from multiple sources.

Mission Control and Mission Support
Human-based missions on the lunar surface
Communication data entry for anomaly detection
Past lunar mission data

What is the problem?

Space flight control requires a river of decisions, actions, and observations, often with parallel streams. Voice communication is a primary means of navigation and adaptation. That said, flight controller performance can be saturated by an excessive amount of voice traffic and/or demands from other systems.

Console logs have been used since the beginning of the Space Program to document significant observations, conversations and actions of flight controller console positions. From the 1960’s through the 1990’s, pen and paper were used. Voluminous physical storage was required and document search was mentally exhausting. During that era, terminals for mainframe / microcomputer based flight control and planning systems took up the real estate that was not needed for communications equipment. Application switching on the terminals was difficult and timely. Due to reliability requirements on the control and planning systems, the evolution of workstation and Personal Computer (PC) and servers took quite a while. Figure 1 shows a typical Spacelab-era console log.

Fig. 1 & 2

How does it work?

DELOS provides an integrative dashboard that leverages a console log with focused communication channels for text, audio, and video entry to allow for better communication between crew members, mission support and researchers. Leveraging a unique UI and UX interface allow multiple users to share status updates and better manage systems operations for handling spot discussions and vectoring longer ones.

Fig. 3 & 4 – DELOS Code, DELOS User Interface

The user experience of DELOS features:

A display consolidating various information streams that require less human processing to grasp the “big picture” of operational events and context in order to make Streamlined Back-end Architecture
To allow users to seamlessly collaborate and integrate console log data from over 100 users in real-time
Role specific visualization to meet immediate needs for data analyses and quick decision-making
Cross-platform AI-driven insights that extend beyond singular roles
Mitigates human-error by leveraging vocal recognition to transcribe audio in real-time for anomaly detection
Live editing and tracking
Auto date/time and tag data entry: the DELOS application allows multiple users from various sources to communicate and collaborate with live streams of console log data that are automatically tagged and available through a searchable API.

How does this benefit NASA?

NASA has built and maintained data entry from the Apollo mission from manual log entry.

DELOS provide features that make NASA’s systems operations work even better:

Collaborate seamlessly in real-time with multiple users
Secure tracking for auditing purposes
Easy-to-use UI
Anomaly detection and alerts (current and legacy systems have complex, cumbersome interfaces)
Maintain & control dissemination of critical data in a role-centric manner that provides the right data, to the right people, at the right time
Rely on a database that can handle big data with up to 4GB per individual dataset and an API that authenticates users for both retrieval and uploading. Sort by log type to coordinate user can customize view to narrow in on specific communications / data sets
Trust in the system as different entry in database (enforces versioning) keeps track of the versions (non-destructive)

Additional Information:

An API has been created at http://ec2-18-221-105-205.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:5000/ that can be used to interact with the data. Depending on the role of the user, different actions are allowed or prohibited for security measures. User access is verified by 'Sessions.'

Space Agency Data

We used the following data to test our app:

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO): https://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataproducts.html
LRO Diviner PDS Nodes: https://www.diviner.ucla.edu/data
Moon Trek API: https://trek.nasa.gov/tiles/apidoc/trekAPI.html?body=moon

LRO is an open data source that scientists and researchers have used to create collaborative applications such as ASU’s Lunar QuickMap. QuickMap is an inspiring project because it is used by many commercial space companies to enable terrain relative navigation (TRN) for landing on the lunar surface. The data is being used to simulate the multi-user logging flow as a demonstration of our application’s functionality.

Hackathon Journey

We had a lot of fun working on this challenge, which has been a total rollercoaster! We learned a lot about the best methods for setting up a secure database given the challenge requirements, and how important it is to have clear communication between team members.

We approached the project using half of our team’s space industry experience as well as the other half’s design and software expertise. This challenge was our first choice due to our collective love for space and our neighbor, the Moon. One of our team members spent the past year working on interoperable communications solutions for lunar missions and is excited to create an application to support NASA. We resolved setbacks by calling in mentors for advice and having regular check-ins to support each other.

We’d like to thank our beloved friend Jeni Vitarello for inspiring us to partake in this challenge and introducing two of our team members together. We’d also like to thank Olivia, Nick, Ruth, and Hussain for their input and encouragement before the challenge. Lastly, we’d like to thank NASA for publishing open data to generate more accessibility and interoperability in the space industry.

References

Data and Resources:

Software Dependencies:

PyMySQL~=1.0.2
Flask~=2.0.1
flask-mysqldb~=0.2.0
python-dotenv~=0.19.0
werkzeug~=2.0.1
MySql
Ubuntu (Operating System)
Docker
Amazon
EC2
S3

Global Judging

This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.