Orbital| Orbital Sky
Orbital Sky
OrbiSat > From the space to the earth
Summary
We are Orbital, on this Space App Challenge hackathon we chose the general challenge “Connect” and the specific challenge “Orbital Sky” We want to improve public knowledge of satellites with “OrbiSat” which allows you to explore the satellites orbiting your location on earth, you can pick one, and use it to take a satellite picture from space. To get your picture from a satellite, you must know details about them such as their names, country of design and / or manufacture, speed, etc.You could share your picture on social media and this would motivate others to experiment using AR within social media filters. With “OrbiSat” we would be promoting enthusiasm and satellite exploration.
How We Addressed This Challenge
This challenge was looking a to create enthusiasm, exploration and engagement for the humans and this is what we did, understand we are now more connected than ever using social media, so we are using filters form Spark AR, using augmented reality we make people to feel more connected and use our app to find out more about satellites and at the end of their experience be able to freeze this moment in time and share it back to the social media. We took NASA data to locate satellites near us, so we can see it through our app.
We developed a mobile application prototype plus a Ig and Facebook Filter using AR, allowing you to learn about satellites especially those orbiting over your zone, and take a picture to share it with your friends. We want every single person on earth to know how important satellites are in everyday life.
App features>
View satellites
Take pictures
Share experience on social media
Fun environment
How We Developed This Project
we were inspired with our own lack of knowledge about satellites and finding out how our lives it's better because of them, now we want a fun and easy way to general people to learn and pay attention to them, we are a group of girls from the Mujeres TICs Community with different skills, we have a programer, a designer, a User experience designer and a control tower airport controller, we are using marvel app and looking to take it to xamarin once the prototype its accepted, we know c# and python to get this done, we at first were a bit lost trying to get the best approach and going faster to develop an app, we want to use the agile way to develop, first doing the mockup of what our project can do for so many people to learn now in this covid situation using Spark AR from facebook as well.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
You can use any open data you'd like. However, to be eligible for Judging, you must also use data from NASA and/or one of NASA's partner agencies for Space Apps 2020 (CSA, CNES, JAXA, etc.). Describe how it was used or how it influenced your project.
This one it's an amazing api to now closer and from an excellent source all the satellites we need, so we don't need to introduce manually every time a new satellite its launched.
https://www.space-track.org/documentation#/api
This one a allow us to understand how other people been using information to show them on maps and give us a kick to create our platform
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/imagery-and-data