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Orbital Sky
SAT-X
Summary
SAT-X is a free, open source and user friendly interactive educational application made to bring satellites closer to home.The main goal is to answer correctly to a set of science based, space-related questions in order to "collect as many satellites" as possible.Users compete between each other to fight for a seat in the leader-board and to win awesome NASA based prices.All the data is verified and real-time, provided by multiple APIs and filtered by our GraphQL API.
How We Addressed This Challenge
The main goal was to improve public knowledge of satellites, with an eye towards driving user engagement, enthusiasm, and exploration; that's why we made a fun and interactive educational app, almost like a game, in order to make the process of learning funnier and more exciting.
Users answers a set of questions in order to unlock satellites, which are later saved in a personal area. They also receive points to compete in a world-wide leader-board. The absolute winner wins awesome NASA based prices.
The satellites are fetched form verified sources and displayed in a map, once a satellites gets unlocked the user has the chance to view what that satellite is seeing directly from obit.
How We Developed This Project
We chose this challenge because we liked the idea of making the process of learning a bit funnier and exciting, in order to engage as many people as possible.
The backend is a GraphQL API written in Javascript that fetches and filters data from NASA APIs (and third parties) about satellites.
The frontend is coded with Vue.js.
Everything is hosted on GitHub.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We used these resources:
- PLANNING ON USING https://api.nasa.gov/
- PLANNING ON USING https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/REST/json/
Unfortunately one of the main sources was down during the entire challenge.
Project Demo
Project Code
Data & Resources
- PLANNING ON USING https://api.nasa.gov/
- PLANNING ON USING https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/REST/json/