Trash Pandas

Stockholm | Mapping Space Trash in Real Time

JunkViz

High-Level Project Summary

A web-based visualization of orbital debris, powered by data from Space-Track.org

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/kTl6QvEcCtQ

Link to Final Project

https://github.com/jamieomoya/trashpandas-frontend

Detailed Project Description

Backend code here:

https://github.com/jamieomoya/trashpandas-backend

Space Agency Data

The project uses information about the orbits of space debris, shared by USSPACECOM freely available via Space-Track.org (registration required).


Future work might include data from ESA DISCOSweb (registration required).

Hackathon Journey

Thanks to the amazing team at HiQ!

References

Tags

#space-debris

Mapping Space Trash in Real Time

The increasing amount of debris orbiting Earth could potentially limit our access to space, impacting not only exploration efforts, but routine aspects of our life on Earth. Your challenge is to develop an open-source geospatial application that displays and locates every known debris object orbiting Earth in real time.