Boşluk| Breakthrough
Breakthrough
-Boşluk- Propulsion Systems Awareness App
Summary
As humanity we have been trying to go further. So, from the beginning of the rocket age to today engineers and scientist have developed many propulsion technology to push the things away. Traveling at speed of light could enable humanity to reach other stars and even other galaxies in a period of human life.Although propulsion systems have developed so much, we are not even close to travel at speed of light. In this project we aimed to create awareness among people by comparing current and expected propulsion systems. In our mobile app people can get information about almost all types of space propulsion systems.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We have developed a mobile app which includes a showcase of propulsion systems. Humanity always wanted to go other stars ,other galaxies. In order to do this we need to have faster vehicles than we have today. To built faster vehicles people have to develop new propulsion systems that could accelerate through speed of light. When you ask people about space propulsion mostly they do not know so much about these technologies. By developing this app we wanted to give inspiration to the people who will make new breakthroughs. In our mobile app users can easily look at propulsion tabs which are separated by their core technology. On tabs users can read about the core technology and get specific information about space propulsion techniques by touching the pictures of engines. We aimed to give intuition to people who will develop breakthrough space propulsion systems.
How We Developed This Project
we all have thoughts about go to the stars and learn about universe more and more. Thus, we think that humanity have to develop much more advanced technologies; so, we decided to give inspiration to people who has curiosity like us.
Our app is user-friendly and easy-to use.
We used Flutter framework for Dart Programming Language. It's a powerful tool that lets developers to make apps for IOS, android and web. We used Visual Studio Code for editing the code and Android Studio's Pixel 2 emulator to test the user experience.
Then, we planned to calculate astronaut's age after long space journey to point out how long this journey is ,and place it in our app in an interactive way. However, because of our limited time we did not manage to do it.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We took the descriptions of propulsion systems from space agencies websites.
We also used data to learn and showcase the current projects, projects in the future and the possible roadmaps about different propulsion systems.
Project Demo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hlEkZn79f7HKlG-0Q1d3J8-sJeCtmfNE/view?usp=sharing
Project Code
Data & Resources
wikipedia, nasa.gov,
https://global.jaxa.jp/countdown/f17/overview/ikaros_e.html
www.grc.nasa.gov
dawn.jpl.nasa.gov
solarsystem.nasa.gov
history.nasa.gov
www.esa.int
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/SMART-1
https://uzay.tubitak.gov.tr/en/uydu-uzay/hale
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/solarsail/index.html
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20140000851.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_Engine_That_Does_More.html
https://interestingengineering.com/a-faster-than-light-warp-drive-powered-spaceship-may-be-possible
https://www.esa.int/Education/Solar_sails