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Orbital Scrap Metal – The Video Game V2.0

Orbital debris is an ever-increasing threat to space assets such as Earth observation satellites and space stations and explorers. Your challenge is to create an orbital debris collection videogame web-app and imagine the possibilities of new companies that collect orbital debris and salvage the scrap metal to manufacture new products in space.

Space Debris Mania

Summary

Our project's goal is to educate the younger generation about the problems of their future with the focus on solutions to the issue of space debris. We believe that educating children through video games is a powerful way to sow the seeds of inspiration and build a generation who is excited to solve the worlds problems. Using a web game built in vanilla JavaScript we plan to provide kids with introductory knowledge about space debris while they are having fun collecting virtual space debris in game.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We have developed a web based video game developed in JavaScript with the aim of educating kids about the problem of space debris. The game addresses the challenge because it will provide base level information about space debris to kids while they are doing something they enjoy. The goal is to get kids excited about space and to inspire them to solve the growing problems of their future.

How We Developed This Project

The team chose this challenge because it will be fun to develop a game and is a good avenue to the younger generation. The team believes that the best way to ensure that international problems like this will continue to be solved in the future years to come is to build inspiration in the future years to come. The team used Atom text editor with teletype add on to work simultaneously. The logic of the game is built using vanilla java script while the web page and styling is done using HTML and CSS. Because the team members have never used JavaScript before starting this hackathon the team adapted and modified a few key functions from a W3School tutorial.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

The team uses NASA data regarding the current amount of space debris as well as the danger it poses to our space infrastructure. This data influenced the teams information which is presented when the user collects some space debris, this will show the range of material which makes up "space debris".

Project Demo

Video

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12bdGaBXgJg1Epv3PRXLbhZEYJe6DSwLr/view


Playable Game

https://sawoud.github.io/SpaceMania/

Project Code
Data & Resources
  • B. Keeter, “Space Debris,” NASA, 05-Dec-2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/library/find/bibliographies/space_debris. [Accessed: 04-Oct-2020].
  • M. Garcia, “Space Debris and Human Spacecraft,” NASA, 14-Apr-2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html. [Accessed: 04-Oct-2020].
  • N. A. N/A, N/A. [Online]. Available: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ba/7a/c4/ba7ac448f85ab6fa6ad51e0ebe919273.jpg.
  • “Space Debris and Space Traffic Management,” Home, Nov-2018. [Online]. Available: https://aerospace.org/node/4151/printable/print. [Accessed: 04-Oct-2020].
  • “Field Report: LimeSDR Mini Satellite Ground Station.” [Online]. Available: https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr-mini/updates/field-report-limesdr-mini-satellite-ground-station. [Accessed: 04-Oct-2020].
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  • “Space Debris and Space Traffic Management,” Home. [Online]. Available: https://aerospace.org/node/4151/printable/print. [Accessed: 04-Oct-2020].
  • HTML Game Example. [Online]. Available: https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/game_intro.asp. [Accessed: 04-Oct-2020].

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