Fillory and Further| Breakthrough

Breakthrough

Faster-than-light travel is the key to humanity’s dreams of inter-galactic space travel. Your challenge is to create an app, tool, game, or other interactive application that showcases both existing, as well as next generation/theoretical, breakthrough spacecraft propulsion in an engaging way.

Fillory and Further

Summary

'Fillory' as seen in our team name is a fictional planet in a TV show, 'The Magicians', and in the show, Fillory is shown as a planet where "magic" is sourced from; I know this is quite the reach, but for all we know, a Fillory could be out there in the universe, and until breakthrough discoveries are made in physics to help develop space propulsion technology that can enable at least, faster-than-light travel, we will, frankly speaking, be unable to explore space on a larger scale due to the human lifespan being inadequate in relation to travel times to any destination (really), in space, either in our solar system, galaxy or the universe as its expanding whole.

How We Addressed This Challenge

To this effect, there are a number of space propulsion solutions that seek to serve as “breakthrough propulsion technology”; amongst them are those that are in use already but still need a lot of research and improvement such as the use of solar sails, etc., and there are also those that are still theoretical pending if and when they can be made practical, such as the use of wormholes, etc.

How We Developed This Project

Fillory and Further seeks to showcase some of these breakthrough technologies through the use of an interactive mobile app, that will help to assemble spacecrafts using different propulsion technologies and to see their features and even how fast they’ll be able to reach specific destinations in space.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Data & Resources

  • http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/Ion_Propulsion1.html
  • http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs21grc.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
  • http://socratic.org/questions/how-many-miles-away-is-saturn-s-largest-moon-titan-from-the-sun-and-the-earth
  • http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/webproj/212_spring_2015/Robert_Miller/physics.html#:-:text=Solar%20sails%20have%20a%20maximum,the%20sail%20propelling%20it%20forward.
Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WuLXUqGhsSpGeGXJI531AOBCrj3F2JZN/view?usp=drivesdk

Data & Resources

Data & Resources

  • http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/Ion_Propulsion1.html
  • http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs21grc.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
  • http://socratic.org/questions/how-many-miles-away-is-saturn-s-largest-moon-titan-from-the-sun-and-the-earth
  • http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/webproj/212_spring_2015/Robert_Miller/physics.html#:-:text=Solar%20sails%20have%20a%20maximum,the%20sail%20propelling%20it%20forward.
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.