Hykes - Space Apps Challenge

Hykes| Hey! What Are You Looking At?

Hey! What Are You Looking At?

The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) archives space agencies' data from missions studying electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic cosmic phenomena (e.g., gravitational wave detections, gamma ray bursts, and supernovae). The Canadian Astronomy Data Center (CADC) is another repository containing missions studying comets, asteroids, and exoplanets among other things. Your challenge is to create a visualization tool that can help people interested in these phenomena to access the data quickly and easily.

Nasa Hykes

Summary

NASA HYKES app is an initiative whose aim is to provide a user-friendly experience in accessing data easily from missions studying electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic cosmic phenomenal like gravitational wave detection, gammy ray burst, and supernova. It also includes data on missions studying comets and asteroids. It makes these data available by means of a 3D interactive global sphere that indicates the region of the sky that is currently being observed by orbiting satellites within a specific time range. The user can then zoom into the sphere to check specific areas of interest for data collection. This makes data collection very easy.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We developed an android application called NASA HYKES. It is very important because it enables users to easily access data from space missions and orbiting satellites. The app does this by integrating the complex API calls or query parameters into simple and easy to use User Interface(UI). This is achieved by using the openGL graphics library to render celestial spheres. On each of the celestial spheres, we represent the different datasets with distinctive colors. This makes the NASA HYKES app easy to navigate.

How We Developed This Project

Our team was inspired to choose this challenge because we wanted data/information regarding space missions/studies to be easily accessible to everyone, from the space scientists to the space organizations, and to space enthusiasts. when space data is easily accessible, interest in space will increase. Our approach to developing the project was to create an android app. The coding language that was used in achieving this was JAVA. The tools used were Android studio, Adobe illustrator, and figma. The problem our team faced was lack of sufficient time. We had to build an app, and 48 hours was not enough to do this. Also, some of the sills needed for the projectwere learnt during the 48 hour period.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We utilized the sky visualization tool in creating a sky map for our android app.

Project Demo

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Project Code

https://github.com/MohammedElonX/TeamHykes

Data & Resources

https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/current/javadoc/

https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/current/cgi/surveySummary.pl

http://archive.stsci.edu/ssap/search2.php?id=FUSE&pos=151.0,69.0&size=2.0

Judging

This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.