Space Exploration in Your Backyard
Backyard Cosmos
Summary
With the data available on all businesses and firms supporting NASA in its missions, we plan to showcase to the world their contributions with a map representing their locations. Use the search bar to see the latest innovations in your interest domains or explore the contributors just around the corner from where you live. Experience a rocket launch and the latest discoveries at a touch using perplexing Augmented Reality. You can be assured to be inspired to make your contributions to the space society with previous collaborators on your back and the future technology to look forward to.
How We Addressed This Challenge
This challenge relates to the fact that connection empowers us to take action together. We examine methods for relating and contributing as one and analyze the complex network of people and ideas that contribute to space agency missions on Earth and in space.
Together as a community, we can learn the societal benefits we can achieve by creating a visual representation of the expanse of the space sector's influence, showing the network of organizations and locations associated with the work of space exploration using the latest technologies.
The app developed hopes to inspire people to make their contributions to the space industry, regardless of their constrictions. We want to connect people to their passions and participate in helping the businesses in the same field achieve the unthinkable. We hope that our app will allow individuals to discover their dream jobs and accomplish their goal of working towards reaching the cosmos.
How We Developed This Project
The idea of making an app which allows working in the space industry easier and achievable while proposing a solution to connect individuals and businesses to deliver their ideas is what inspired us to work on this challenge. It will open up opportunities for many space-enthusiasts to work towards their dream.
To develop the project, our primary goals were to nurture curiosity and exploration towards the cosmos while producing ways to contribute to the project here and now. We desired to make the information simple to follow and encourage anyone to succeed in accomplishing their desires.
To acquire the map to observe and locate the firms, web scraping, python, and JSON was used. To develop the user interface and app, Adobe XD, Flutter, and Dart were utilized. SolidWorks, Unity, and Android Studio were used to create the Augmented Reality simulation of the rocket launch.
While we faced initial setup problems, we achieved a lot along the way. We were able to share our skill sets and accomplish our original plan better than we could ever have imagined. We had fun communicating over the 48 hours and being able to provide ideas and solutions to solve any problems faced. Ultimately, we are proud of the app that depicts our vision for the challenge selected.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
NASA's open data resources hold an abundance to network databases. Mapping that to a digital globe makes the data interactive and enables people to connect and contribute to the space sector. The Small business innovation research database provided by NASA is the base for our app. We want to celebrate the contributions made by the firms and their proposals to the betterment of the space science society. This data was used to obtain all the firm details. Their addresses were then plotted on a map to aid the user to collect the information about their nearest firms and their respective contributions using Web scraping and Json. To display the data html was used along with coding in python to do the rest.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1thc0T2mlXO5qHuB1NYVC9aop2NlER4N8mj88t7n734Q/edit?usp=sharing
As seen in the spreadsheet, the information from the database was extracted and utilized in plotting the map for the geographical representation of the data.
Project Code
Data & Resources
- Small business innovation research database https://sbir.nasa.gov/advanced_search
- Honeybee robotics https://honeybeerobotics.com/
- Space launch system 3D Model https://grabcad.com/library/space-launching-system-1
- NASA History and how are we going to Moon and Mars https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/getting-there
- Solicitations available https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/solicitations.do;jsessionid=MPHyjHyTC5iM8hmNtrl-M4mcj4azAkwohh8INtZSY8XgZOE-S1iv!2028069790!wnp1.nasaprs.com!7006!-1!-189896326!wnp2.nasaprs.com!7006!-1