Up There| Orbital Sky
Orbital Sky
Up There
Summary
UpThere app brings space technology from "Up there" down to the ground. Learn, explore, have fun through the app while learning about space based technologies. The app provides also useful resources in case the end-user wants to use them in a project.
How We Addressed This Challenge
The answer to this question resolves in the Space App Challenge in itself. In the course of a week-end, thousands of people a developping solutions related to space and earth. Everyone around the world rely on space based technology. But, who really understands what this is all about, where the GPS in your phone comes from? The app helps tackle this challenge by providing educative, enriching, interactive experience to get in touch with the technologies that litteraly surrounds us.
How We Developed This Project
We gathered data from over the web and organised it in excel sheets, word docs, to get a good idea around it. Unfortunately (and technically speaking) , we were not able to parse into JSON files and use the data from excel directly in our app. Nevertheless, we did it by hand, and with love. The app itself was made with Angular/Ionic frameworks, using NodeJs. We used Visual Studio Code IDE to develop and Android Studio to build into android .apk file. The languages used here are JavaScript, HTML, CSS and a bit of Java. Image editing skills were also used for some images displayed through the project.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We gathered information and resources from all over the web, but most times, the best resources come from the space agencies themselves. They provide public a lot of useful resources, sometimes in the form of raw data, sometimes with a user friendly approach, and that meets a lot of needs. Also, Nasa provides excellent 3D cadded models accessible to embed into any web page, and that was an awesome discovery for us.
Project Demo
Here's the link to our Google Drive. The file AppPresentation.mp4 is an actual screen recording of the app being used. The file UpThere.apk is the application itself that can be installed on Android device. Other files considered useful are also stored there.
Come, take a look!
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1EBHp1bMq320so4XpybKYwEpexDDpNjup
Watch on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxj09b_hdVU
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Project Code
Data & Resources
Lots of different data are from official space agencies websites, used for satellite specs gathering, etc.
NASA's Solar Systems: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/
NASA's Eyes: https://eyes.nasa.gov/eyes-on-the-earth.html
CSA open data: https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/fra/donnees-ouvertes/default.asp
Sketchfab:https://sketchfab.com/
Angular: https://angular.io/
Ionic: https://ionicons.com/