Awards & Nominations
Astrolabe has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
Astrolabe
High-Level Project Summary
Astrolabe is a geospatial AR application that visualizes the large amount of space debris that is around us according to ODPO (ORBITAL DEBRIS PROGRAM OFFICE) As of January 1, 2020 there is currently 23,000 orbital debris larger than 10 cm are known to exist and approximately 500,000 smaller than 10 cm and the number is growing every day so we made our mission to raise awareness of this problem by making our Solution more accessible and impactful we chose to use AR to visualize the debris so that anyone that uses the app can see what the sky looks like from his point of view on earth by tacking the user location and visualizing the debris in realtime
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Detailed Project Description
our solution is a smartphone app that's support ios and android phones we did this so we can reach more people to spread awareness we did this by using react native which is an opensource library from Facebook that allows us to build apps for two different platforms with one codebase which is more efficient
we also use THREEJs which is an open-source 3d library for javascript and it also has AR and VR functionality, so this is how our app works first we get the telemetry data from Nasa open API website and CELESTRACK every 24h and then we save this data in our database which is a document-based database from google Firestore then when a user opens the app we pull the data from our DB and we get the access the user location through the phone GPS then we use satellite js which is an opensource library that helps us convert the telemetry data from the Two-line element set format to the viewing angle base on the user location then we convert this angles to poison in our 3d space and draw it and after a short amount of time we repeat the process so we can have real-time location visualization
Space Agency Data
the space agency data was so helpful in our planning process we used the ODPO website to learn more about the effects and dangers of space debris
and we also used the History of On-Orbit Satellite Fragmentations which helped us to get more info on the space debris characteristics and help us make a small catalog of the decayed and breakup events which helped us to categorize the data better
and finally, we used NASA Open APIs to get the TLE data for the objects
Hackathon Journey
our space app experience was amazing it is the first time for all the team members to join the hackathon and we were and still are excited to be part of it
our team was mostly friends from school or college so it was easy to just start the work
we learned a lot this hackathon how to build phone apps using new technology working with AR and VR and learning about Orbital mechanics and how it works, it was a lot of fun and we can't wait to join next year
when we meet to chose a challenge we saw that the Mapping Space Trash in Real-Time challenge has an important message and it is an issue that a lot of people don't think about and we also found that we can do a lot of things in this challenge and explore our ideas
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Tags
#spaceDebris #space #AR #AppDevolopment
Global Judging
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