zeis| Orbital Sky
Orbital Sky
Obital object traking
Summary
This Project is based on a Web-Application that provides you with information and stats about the Satellites revolve around the globe.Our main objective with this Web Application is to improve the interaction of people with Space and to enhance their taste in Space related activity.The web application will demonstrate individual Satellite’s Elliptical OrbitsAlso it provides a realtime movement view of the satellites based on TLE data that we gathered from https://www.space-track.org/It also allows seeing the satellites that are right above your current location also.
How We Addressed This Challenge
What did you develop?
A web application that is capable of showing real-time updated information about the orbital objects that are revolve around the earth.
Why is it important?
Most of the people in earth, don't have an idea about orbital objects that are revolving around the earth. Even if the use everyday and heard about GPS navigation systems most of them aren't aware how it's work and the technology, hard work behind those systems. we are trying to give some knowledge to users about the orbital objects and also make an entreating way to tell them about this amazing achievements of engineering technology.
What does it do?
Basically the web application is able to provide real-time location and a projected orbit of a given object(satellite) based on TLE data that we gathered from https://www.space-track.org/
How does it work?
We use the TLE data from https://www.space-track.org/ to generate and calculate the satellites orbit, current location based on the time to show a representation of orbital objects that are moving on a 3D scene that has accurate map information.
What do you hope to achieve?
We are hoping that any one can easily lean about orbital objects from our application and also we are looking forward to create a mobile app that have a game to engage users more.
How We Developed This Project
We used mainly javascript to create the application and some opensource libraries and projects,
- ArcGIS API for JavaScript by Esri
- Esri’s JavaScript library for mapping and analysis.
- Google Fonts, specifically Orbitron and Oswald
- "A web with web fonts is more beautiful, readable, accessible and open."
- jQuery by jQuery Foundataion Inc
- A JavaScript framework for DOM manipulation and a foundation for many other frameworks.
- satellite-js by Shashwat Kandadai and UCSC
- Modular set of functions for SGP4 and SDP4 propagation of TLEs.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
we got the TLE data from this site: https://www.space-track.org/
and these to get the satellite specific information
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://www.n2yo.com/satellite
Project Demo
Demo : https://dev-pos.github.io/space-apps-2020-zeis-orbital-sky/
Presentation : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z-s71QI7vFGFqz-VTptcI6ZCfYzkbfW-/view
Data & Resources
- ArcGIS API for JavaScript by Esri
- satellite-js by Shashwat Kandadai and UCSC
- https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- https://www.n2yo.com