Awards & Nominations
Kessler Vaccine has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
Mapping Space Debris in Real Time
High-Level Project Summary
Our solution presents space debris in an interactive way so people can click on debris to learn about it and specify the debris' parameters
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Our solution leverages Celestrak data along with Cesium and Nasa Worldwind to create an interactive web application, visualizing current active satellites and space debris. Here are our features:
Real-time simulation of orbits and satellite/debris location
Object-tracking capabilities through selection of satellite
Motion widget that let’s the user increase or decrease the speed of the satellites for simulation purposes
User friendly timeline widget to see satellite motion and orbit in the future or past
Filtering capabilities to focus on subsets of data
Strategic color-coding to differentiate active satellites from debris objects
Space Agency Data
We used Celestrak, NASA Worldwind, and Cesium.
Hackathon Journey
We have some physics background from general education classes, so that's how we knew about this event. We improved our web development skills. We also improved our data cleaning and visualization skills. Cesium is a useful tool and we're glad for having used it. We read a lot of the documentation for Cesium and NASA Worldwind and that really helped us understand what goes wrong initially when connecting them. Dominic had work at a restaurant for a sizeable portion of the hackathon and Molika lives in Europe, so we strategically worked in shifts.
References
We used Celestrak, NASA Worldwind, Python, S3.js, and Javascript.
Tags
#orbits
Global Judging
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.