The Cosmonuts| Breakthrough

Awards & Nominations

The Cosmonuts has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

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.

Our Final Hope

Summary

Life on planet earth is going extinct because of overpopulation. Can you save humanity? Your main goal is to send teams of scientists to known exoplanets so that they'll be able to detect whether or not it's habitable and colonizable. But there are several obstacles you need to overcome in order to save mankind. Are you ready to take the challenge?

How We Addressed This Challenge

We devoled a demo version of an app (text based game) that allows the player to make interstellar travels to known locations of the universe. It's important because several mathematically accurate calculations are made and will be added in the future, that'll allow players to learn about and discover the known universe. Also it's main idea could be used by scientists to calculate the outcome of a travel using several parameters with AI potential.

What we hope to achieve is a fun interactive game that increases in complexity and possibilities with time spent on developing and playing.

How We Developed This Project

Because we don't know how to use graphic environments yet, we decided to go old school and create a text based game in C++. The game has great potential for the future because as our skills develop, so will the game. We're only demonstrating a demo but we're really hopeful and excited for the future of our project!

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
  • We used the distanses of the exoplanets ( in ly) calculated by several centers
  • We concentrated data on fusion propulsion
Project Demo

This is our Power Point presentation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16RRYn-xskUpbsnkMhr3NPeW-t814uSo7/view?usp=sharing

Project Code
Data & Resources
  • Wikipedia
  • nasa.gov
  • The Ghost Team-project ikarus
  • Astronautics: The Physics of Space Flight-Ulrich Walter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_exoplanets

https://nasaspaceappsgreece.slack.com/files/U01C7GVUM8R/F01BQ8AH6LE/icarus_nikper.pdf

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/niac_2011_phasei_slough_fusionrocket_tagged.pdf

Tags
#cosmonuts #breakthrough #greece
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.