High-Level Project Summary
We built a dynamic web application as a simulation for the globe with every debris, satellite, payload, etc. We also provided information about them including name, type, position, etc. All this information is displayed by clicking on the satellite. The application is provided with a search engine that allows searching for any satellite or space debris and classifying them according to many filters as type, size, role and altitude from the globe. Also, we added a time tracker and 3d&2d views to maximize the information got from our website. This will help people explore the data coming from the instruments flying overhead and widen their eyes about how small and big objects around them work.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Around the Earth, there’s a fascinating world. But sadly, there’s a lot of things orbiting our globe, affecting our exploration effort. So, it's now obvious the need of the geospatial application that locates these orbiting debris, and that’s our mission. From the very first moment we decided to work on this challenge, we had an overview in our minds, and till now we have reached a lot of what we expected to do. We built a dynamic web application which is a simulation for the globe with not only every debris orbiting it, but also every satellite, rocket, payload, and more. And we also provided all the information about them including name, type, position, NORAD ID, perogee, apogee, and more. All of this information are displayed to the user by clicking on the satellite. The application is also provided with a search engine that allows the user to search for any satellite or space debris out there. The search engine also allows the user to classify the satellites according to many filters as type (Junk, Not Junk), size, there role and the altitude from the globe. Also, we added a time tracker and 3d and 2d views to maximize the information got from our website and help the users. This application is going to help people explore more of the data and applications coming from the instruments flying overhead. In addition, it is going to widen their eyes about how small and big objects around them work and function every day like the GPS and Glonass for example. We made this real by building our site that is made with HTML, CSS, JS with Three.min.js and Tween.js (open-source codes), in addition to Web GL toolkit, jQuery and other bootstrap libraries. We believe that our website can be a good solution for Nasa space apps Mapping space trash in real time challenge.
Space Agency Data
To create our project, we used the database provided by “n2yo.com”. The database was downloaded manual with “.tle” extension, then with a JavaScript library the satellites and debris where converted to an object moving on a 3D plan. The source of our inspiration was the idea of Nasa space tracker which tracks satellites movement in the space.
Hackathon Journey
When the event was about to happen this year we started to gather the team members as we were in the same high-school. All the team since the beginning had an incredible chemistry. We started searching for possible solutions and then it was found that a simulation for the globe with the satellites and debris orbiting it will be a great solution with no difficulties to deal with. The project was built using satellites databases and programming languages as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and lots of its libraries. The event started at pm at Friday. Since that time, we started working together on zoom meetings to finalize our project, demo video, and slides.
References
1- https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/
2- https://www.space-track.org/
3- https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
4- https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js
5- https://fonts.google.com/
6- https://jquery.com/
7- https://github.com/seiyria/bootstrap-slider
8- https://getbootstrap.com/
9- http://js.arcgis.com/4.6/dojo/dojo.js
10- https://github.com/tweenjs/tween.js/
11- https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/
13- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O64KM4GuRPk
Tags
#AI, #Debris, #Sattelite, #Rockets, #Payloads, #Web, #Application, #Spaceflight, #Space-Tracker
Global Judging
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