High-Level Project Summary
A web page was developed, that web page is able to track space debris in real time and it can predict its behavior. The web page will display and locate in real time the space debris, also it will make predictions of its location.With the help of this web page, there will be a safer and more efficient access to space by space agencies all around the world, either if they are launching a rocket or a satellite, also this web page will help to protect astronauts and satellites that are already in orbit.
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Detailed Project Description
On October 4, 1957, the first artificial satellite was launched and put into orbit. And ever since, large amounts of space debris have accumulated (Inactive satellites, upper stage launchers, mechanical parts, components and fragments of rockets and satellites). This is a very big risk for astronauts and satellites that are working right now, but this is also a very serious problem for new rockets and new satellites that have not been launched.
Our project is a web page, it is able to:
- Track space debris in real time.
- Predict the location of the space debris, either in the future or in the past.
- Convert orbital parameters (TLE) into geographic coordinates.
We are using the Worldwind library to create a canvas, this way we can draw the degrees objects and the earth, but Worldwind needs an altitude, longitude and altitude in order to create objects inside, what we do is translate the info we are taking from Celestrak’s datasets from TLEformat to geographic coordinates with the satelliteJS library, finally we use the same satelliteJS to predict objects’ (trash) position with a date given. There are several layers with their own objects inside, only one layer active at once, the active layer is using prediction every minute to update their location.
We hope to achieve a web page that tracks and predicts every space debris in space. This web page will make access to space safer, more efficient and easier, since this web page will give you the location of space debris in real time, also, you will be able to make predictions, allowing you to know its location in the future. Therefore, this web page will reduce possible accidents that could happen in space, saving lives and money.
We use the next software, tools and coding languages:
- Visual studio Code.
- Visual studio Code’s live server extension
- Whatsapp, Google meet
- Google docs
- Worldwind js library
- SatelliteJS library
- Celestrak’s datasets
- Github, Github Desktop
- Our dev environment supports javascript, html5 and css3
- https://github.com/Darkboy5120/orbitalhope
Space Agency Data
Worlwind js NASA’s library and Celestrak’s datasets. Also in order to understand the translating function we made research of TLE format and their utility.
Hackathon Journey
This was a valuable experience, we had a lot of fun, we met new people and we learned a lot. We learned about new programming languages, the importance of predicting space debris trajectories and the impact that this has in our society. We have chosen this challenge because of the accidents related with space debris that have taken place in recent years. We developed a web page to predict future accidents because of space debris collisions.
Our team worked in a collaborative way, we took several meetings over the past of the days in order to answer the questions we had been getting while working on the project, also the work was split it to the members taking their own skills.
We wanna say thanks to our mentor, Mr.José Alvarez who help us to search for infomation and also he bring us a doctor who also help us a lot to map trash and take click events to recognize the trash.
References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set#:~:text=A%20two%2Dline%20element%20set,point%20in%20time%2C%20the%20epoch.&text=This%20format%20was%20eventually%20replaced,preceded%20by%20a%20title%20line.
- https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/
- https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js
- https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind/blob/develop/examples/PlacemarksAndPicking.js
- https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/search
- https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind/blob/develop/examples/GeographicText.js
- https://www.redalyc.org/journal/832/83257398004/html/
- https://www.esa.int/Space_in_Member_States/Spain/La_basura_espacial_a_dia_de_hoy
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f513HPs24VM
- https://youtu.be/4RDYgEzHGhA
- https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/
- https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/table.php?tleFile=iridium-33-debris&title=IRIDIUM%2033%20Debris&orbits=0&pointsPerRev=30&frame=1
- https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/table.php?tleFile=cosmos-2251-debris&title=COSMOS%202251%20Debris&orbits=0&pointsPerRev=30&frame=1
- https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/cosmos-2251-debris.txt
- https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/iridium-33-debris.txt
Tags
#orbitalhope, #spacedebris, #software, #predict
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