Space Exploration in Your Backyard
Unearthing Osiris: Astral Edition
Summary
Space tourism is unarguably emerging as the future of commercial industrialisation with such booming amount of prevalent consumers ready to step into the market of crusading experience. We do look up to better technological advancements which would make the process more accessible. Our project, Space NEXT is another leap towards a less sophisticated software which could help Service providers a forehand towards the specifics into the navigation of astronomical objects and plausible Space tourist sites ranging from planets to other habitable sites. The system would also calculate planetary movements and create an immersive experience for the consumers such as tour planning and documenting.
How We Addressed This Challenge
- Well, we surely are into the Holocene Era which itself marks up to the various innovations of man, and in order to feed the curiosity of the upcoming man, one must be thorough in their facts, theorem, and of course resources. Space NEXT is the next generation tool which introduces the utopian Spatial sky ad its wonders to these vet curious minds and move a step ahead freehand documentation. Interested people would now move just above their Telescopes, and now they would have the resources in perpetual flux to look up to the beautiful sky, document each of its movements just from their balconies. The future belongs to these curious minds, and our project aspires to bridge them a whole leap towards perfection.
- With the booming industry of Space research and travel, rational and curious consumers have a lot of questions in their mind and one always appreciates a tour booklet along with a personalized and immersive experience. Our project expects to fill the gap and provide an above usual, yet easy to operate system to put out for the general public to use and fulfill their drive and not just seeing but knowing more of everything.
How We Developed This Project
Being the curious case ourselves, the team always aspired to be amongst the stars, test the unusual gravity, while we also realized that how many other youngsters shared the same dream as we do. Our drive to create the project was to fill the void of the unavailability of non-sophisticated data as produced by the space agencies which hardy help our general under educated minds. We recognized the issue unobtainable data of planetary positioning which was easy to access and personalized accordingly to promote privatized research for different individuals as well as help the emerging space tourism and making it believe a bit less complex.
We used a UI based application development software (JavaScript), Balsamiq, while the mechanics still in progress.
Visual Studio Code was used for editing the application code.
God knows how less of a struggle it was for us newbies with our very first time into application development, but crediting our inner drive, mutual interests, and a motive, things went better than just usual. We did somehow, edited the video, but all it really takes is teamwork, which I assure the team didn't lack a bit.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
- We used up the data provided by NASA regarding the specified Algorithm of Planetary Movements in the Solar System. Live locations and distances in light years/ Astronomical Units with their visual representation could be tracked up from her within.
- Also, Rotational Movements of the planets were also taken up from the data by NASA. The data provided was actual in maximum terms with predictions of differing planetary hours for each in their own terms. Forecasts for the application are, made through these data.
- Calculations and forecasts of Planetary positioning on specific dates for both future and past were taken up from The Date and Time Group.
- Live Night sky mapping for the 'Real Space Exploration from your Backyard' related data were taken up from Sterillium Web Application. The real time data is derived from this source and our app coincides with the user's location and provide a specific route for your connection.
Project Demo
Here are the links to our presentation and video that demonstration the idea of our app:
Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uswNJ1ABjyo0OMsrsNHKWCw7gHEIbGj8IF8OBFA6_B8/edit?usp=sharing
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWaxURW95xo
Here are some images of the UI of our app:
Project Code
Data & Resources
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/whats-up-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/
https://mars.nasa.gov/all-about-mars/night-sky/close-approach/#:~:text=Close%20is%20a%20relative%20term,the%20sun%20during%20Close%20Approach
https://theskylive.com/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/overview/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/