Space Searchers

https://www.figma.com/proto/l44gTV52K7VSsDxbA00WPP/Space-Search?page-id=0%3A1&node-id=1%3A2&viewport=3650%2C19851%2C0.4&scaling=scale-down&starting-point-node-id=1%3A2

https://youtu.be/KowUODL-W8U

If the sky's the limit, what’s beyond? Almost each one of us once in a while have wondered what’s beyond our extremes? Where did we come from and what’s after we reach the perceived limits?

'Space Search' is an application that serves your interest in space by letting you identify, assemble and launch a project into space to ultimately explore your utopic idea of the universe.

As a user logs in to the application, one finds a map and timeline of projects covered by NASA so far. The feeling is similar to entering the city of NASA and you can choose a city of your choice to make it your own. 

You click on a project and you get the summary of what it holds inside.

You go ahead to find the different stages that the project is made in, including 

Level 1 - Identifying the Inventory: A quiz with reasoning helps you make an inventory

Level 2 - Assembling the Parts: You drag the parts collected from inventory to a 2D model of the final product - satellite/ rocket/ telescope

Level 3 - Prepare for Launch: You drag and drop the important technical processes involved to make it work 

All this while it shows you the progress of your project completion

(Wait time…) LAUNCH 

Level 4 - View the Results: You can finally see the results of what the product brings to you from space - Could be graphs of data, images, etc

It bridges the gap between space and its enthusiasts with the help of NASA and their years of efforts 

1. Your contribution matters: Making them realize that there is always something in the process that they can individually contribute to
2. Patience is the key: Helping them understand what all it takes to get there

It gives a sense of a project’s vastness (dimensions, variety and material of components used), and its qualitative (process, launch and results) and quantitative features (time, distance and speed)

It Informs with proper reasoning and displays the progress level of how close one is to their space

“The Space is Far and is Huge”. Yes, it is. But it isn’t impossible to reach there. No matter what cultural or socio economic background you belong to. Space is everywhere and everybody’s. Our idea would ignite the self confidence of people and subconsciously help them identify their possible role in the process. A broken down process may trigger new ideas and solutions to people in general for perceived potential problems in future.

The idea can turn this built confidence into a community of people who are specially skilled to contribute to what the space researchers have been trying to achieve for years. New opportunities can be foreseen and made attempts to reach.

To develop this idea, we used miro - a collaborative platform to create and collate ideas on, Figma - to visualize that idea in terms of experience and interface and google meet - to connect, collaborate and work cohesively,

The data from open source provided by NASA not only helped us understand the project well but also visualize it for our target audience. It helped us make our application more engaging and interactive.

• The open source data from NASA explained to us the components and processes installed in the project helped us frame the required questions and other interactives. It also helped us with the technical details and the reasoning behind it which in turn helped us reason our concept better.
• We got a lot of visual references including images and videos that helped us give background and baseline to our methods of treatment that also acted as a visual clue to the interest of the people concerned.

Data is Sourced from the following Sources

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/main/index.html

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/coating.html

https://webb.nasa.gov/index.html

https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images

https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/introducing-the-webb-space-telescope-mini-series

https://images.nasa.gov/

https://webb.nasa.gov/

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/facts.html

Space Apps has got us a second chance to bring forward an idea. Reaching the list of Global Nominee last year kept us thinking about not being able to make to the list of finalists. No doubt, the experience of participating in this challenge has something new to teach everytime.

This year we learned to make lemonade of the lemons that situations threw on us (turned our problems into opportunities).

Our team's repeated forming and adjourning brought us here with this idea.

• Interdisciplinary Nature of our Team - Our team constitutes people with varied special skills and backgrounds which encourage us to come together and make STEM into STEAM possible. 
• Adjourning of our Team - When people with different viewpoints come together, conflicts are bound to happen. Our team adjourned twice, and each time it was no less than a panic attack since each member was a pillar standing the weight of the project concerned.

This got us an opportunity here. Any project is made with effective cohesion of different components, ideas and skills. No single unit is self-standing. They are all interconnected and related in a system as a whole.

"How about we dismantle a project into its counterparts and bring up an opportunity for space enthusiasts to identify the respective parts, assemble them together and make their own rocket/ satellite launch to see the space of their imagination/ get the desired results?"

We realized this hard way, that challenges while working in a team are inevitable. Even the ideas that we think of sometimes fail the test of time and leave us on a road unparalleled. It's on us how we'd like to take it forward from there. To all the people who were ever a part of this project and contributed to different stages of its making- from the moment we started brainstorming to the final feedback and outcome, we are equally grateful to all of them.

Special Thanks to Mrs Anjali Gautam for mentoring and reviewing the project at every stage.

Thanks to Ms Shagun Chauhan & Ms Madhurima Chatterjee.

1. https://youtu.be/tnbSIbsF4t4
2. https://pixabay.com/
3. https://thenounproject.com/
4. https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/instrumentation/instruments
5. https://www.descript.com/

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