Singularity

Aaruush Chennai | Nimbus to Now: The History of NASA’s Earth-Observing Missions

Awards & Nominations

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

Global Finalists Honorable Mentions

Nimbus to Now, a time travel across NASA’s legacy

High-Level Project Summary

Our multimedia platform helps in developing a better understanding of the contribution of NASA’s earth observing missions. Our solution allows users to render, compare and visualize different missions. We developed an archive page with an appealing user interface (using NASA’s API). Procedurally rendered 3D scenes of missions cater to the interests of the user. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality provides an immersive seamless experience.

Link to Final Project

https://github.com/dominicwalterlof/singularity

Link to Project "Demo"

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11m-PCkxCiMa9WSTcOsAPTT89A44-Gvg-H-UycZNG9zk/edit?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

Our immersive multimedia platform inspires students by kindling their intuition towards STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) and create a better understanding of NASA’s earth observing mission’s contribution to earth science.

Our platform allows the user to

+ Create accounts with various options (Email sign in, Google, Github and etc).

+ Create unique posters about the space missions

+ Understand the different stages in the development of satellites and launching vehicles with the help of three-dimensional models.

We have developed a website and a mobile companion application by incorporating Augmented Reality into the framework. Our website consists of pages as listed as below

Mission Render Page

+ Visualize different stages involved in an earth observation mission such as vehicle assembly, launch and trajectory

+ Experience the procedurally generated movie renders

+ Users could move their view in 3D space (through events happening) with the help controls to get an immersive experience

Comparison Page

+ Compare different missions, the launch vehicles used for the missions, the engines used in the launch vehicles, their payload capacities and functions

+ Visualize the evolution of mission sets

+ Download procedurally generated poster templates designed uniquely for the users

+ Compare different missions from an array of options available to the user

AR Application:

Virtual Reality

Timeline

Visualize the path that space exploration has come through beginning from the dawn of space era (Explorer-1) till the most advanced space missions of today in the form of a creative timeline

Search

+ The users can traverse through the archives to obtain information about NASA’s earth observing missions. We have used NASA’s API in implementing search process

+ We have also integrated the feature in our mobile application

Features of our project

+ Each poster contains the Name of the generator, timestamp and Quick Response code of the webpage for instant access.

+ The posters are procedurally generated making it unique and one of its kind.

+ The user scans the quick response code using their mobile which opens a window where they could visualize the models in augmented reality.

+ Spatial orbits (poster) enable the user to obtain information about the satellites orbiting them which could inspire them.

+ The user is able to provide input with the help of controls which makes the platform interactive.

Benefits

The multimedia platform has an interactive user interface. We have implemented a multi-parameter searching algorithm which enables users to traverse through the archives of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This method enables us to optimize the process of data management (storage and retrieval). The multimedia platform provides a seamless experience kindling their instinct towards STEM. The world needs many people to work on the pressing challenge in the areas related to STEM. These kinds of efforts are crucial in developing interest among budding young minds.

Tools

Programming Languages: Javascript, Python (Data Organisation), Java (Mobile Application)

Tech Stacks : HTML, CSS, Github Pages,Firebase(Realtime Database, Authentication, Storage)

Software: Visual Studio Code, Github Client, Android Studio

Space Agency Data

We are using 3D models from NASA's 3D Model Collection and we've integrated search API from api.nasa.gov in our project. The information of all the NASA's historic missions were taken from the Earth Observation site's archives... Links listed below

https://api.nasa.gov/

https://science.nasa.gov/missions-page?field_division_tid=103&field_phase_tid=All

https://eospso.nasa.gov/content/all-missions

https://eodashboard.org/

https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/earth-observation/

Hackathon Journey

We are a team of enthusiasts who believe in continuous improvement and innovation. We consider every problem as an opportunity to improve. We were inspired by NASA’s legacy from Nimbus to now!

Last year, our project won the Global Nominee. We are dreamers who believe in upgrading our ideas until we realize the goal we want to achieve. For us, that goal is becoming a global champion in NASA Space Apps Challenge 2022.

The hackathon journey taught us to be focused on the problem we are solving & further go deeper to solve factors behind that problem. NASA had been instrumental in driving people’s instincts towards space exploration. Their initiative of sending names on space missions has been successful in creating a better understanding of the importance of space exploration for humanity. We learnt more about NASA's Mars missions when trying to get these (shown below) some of our friends showed off their tickets in school groups that's how it all started......

Apparently, we realized that our team spirit is capable of fabricating ideas practically. We found that the world needs several creators to come ahead to develop a platform to inspire students towards STEM. Hence, we stepped forward. Firstly, we identified the problems or the space where improvement can be implemented with the recently developed technologies. Then through team discussions, amongst several ideas, the best one was chosen and implemented.