High-Level Project Summary
We developed the idea of a user-friendly and instructive application. The purpose of this is to provide knowledge to all types of audiences regardless of the part of the world in which they are or the technological experience they have. In this application there will be information accompanied by images and other more immersive experiences about the various space agencies that exist, the satellites designed and created by these agencies and how they use them in terms of what has to do with space weather and its research. Our goal is that they receive this data in an entertaining way and that a greater interest in these topics is provoked.
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Detailed Project Description
What exactly our app does is show what the satellites capture. Through instructions sent to them to extract images and videos from them. It will provide an immersive experience since the user can choose between the option of viewing these images and videos in 360° or the option of augmented reality where those who have VR glasses capable of supporting this option can enable it. Depending on the option you prefer, you will have at your disposal a bot guide with which you can have a conversation. This is designed to give a description of each of the objects in which the user pays attention and answer the questions he may raise. As a complement, we provide a timeline in which you can change the date where you want to be located to see different points of view of the satellite you have chosen throughout history. This application has the benefit of being able to make people feel part of these missions and space research from their own homes and help them to stop seeing it as something so distant or alien. By providing a tool like this we hope to achieve an approach by all types of public, both young and old to technology and space science.
Space Agency Data
To solve our challenge we rely on “NASA iSWA RESOURCES”. iSWA is an Integrated Space Weather Analysis System that combines forecasts based on the most advanced space weather models with information from the space environment. Since this is based on space weather and other factors, we decided to create an app that shows space events in a learning and fun way. Users who access the application will be able to see exactly what a satellite sees. In addition, it offers an unprecedented ability to analyze the current and future impacts of space weather.
To link the satellites in our challenge we used the “NASA RESOURCES Parker Solar Probe Science Portal”. This resource investigates and analyzes space events that occur on the sun. Thanks to this resource, we can show images, graphics and orbits made by space satellites.
Parker Solar Probe Science Portal
Hackathon Journey
In Space Apps we had a great experience, we learned to develop new ideas together with other people and to look for different ways to overcome the obstacles that may arise. We felt it was somewhat challenging but this is what in our opinion made it more fun.
We were inspired to choose this challenge by the different ways we had to face it. Our approach to developing our idea was to bring people closer not only to space science, but also to technology by relating the two in a different way.
The biggest setback that our team faced was the few days we had and for this we decided to divide the tasks to be done in what seemed the best possible way. We would very much like to thank NASA for giving us this great opportunity to participate in this contest and also the volunteers who were supporting all the teams during this instance.
References
http://www.sciesmex.unam.mx/blog/que-es-el-clima-espacial/
Tags
#technology #spaceclimate #simulation #sun