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James Webb Space Telescope: THE MISSION

High-Level Project Summary

James Webb Space Telescope: THE MISSION is a board game where the players will become the developers in NASA to complete the James Webb Space Telescope(JWST) mission. Players have to collect materials, build all the required components and finally develop the whole James Webb Space Telescope to explore the unknown in the deep space. We aim to help players to understand directly or indirectly the complexity, capabilities and the beauty of the NASA's JWST. The game leads the players through the development and the circumstances faced in the process of achieving the goal and inventing the world's most powerful tool to discover the part of the world that we had not been able to observe.

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V2gKbMj9Q10HHS_eAxhlcodKW75xUOfd?usp=sharing

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFN4Q4j5A8/kiYx9dlWT5TcJ2kAJZEGyw/view?utm_content=DAFN4Q4j5A8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

Detailed Project Description

Aim: To help people learn about the James Webb Space Telescope’s amazing capabilities.

Number of players: 4-6 players

Estimated playing time: 30-45 minutes

How to play:

-       In the game, players are the developers in NASA to accomplish the mission of creating and launching the James Webb Space Telescope.

-       The developers need to collect all the required materials to build the essential parts of the JWST.

-       After purchasing all the parts, players can build the James Webb Space Telescope and launch it at the launching station.

-       With the help of the JWST, players can capture amazing images of celestial bodies and explore the outer space that we could not have in touch without it.

How to win:

1.    Collect all the elements/instruments to build and launch the James Webb Space Telescope

Material List for Each Component:

Mirror


  • Optical Telescope Element Primary Mirror x 18
  • Optical Telescope Element Secondary Mirror x1
  • Actuator x7


Sunshield


  • Kapton x2
  • Coating x2


NIRCam


  • Coronagraph x1
  • Collimator lenses x1
  • Dichroic beam splitter x1


MIRI


  • Detectors x3
  • Imager x1
  • Cryocooler x1


NIRSpec


  • Micro-shutters x 60000
  • Grating Wheel Assembly (GWA) x1
  • Silicon carbide mirrors x 14


FGS/NIRISS



  • Fine Focus Mechanism x 1
  • NIRISS Detectors x 1
  • Kinematic Mounts x 3


2.    “Capture” 3 images of the distant celestial bodies



What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?

We mainly used Microsoft Office apps, Google Docs and Canva, the most basic applications for design and documentation.

Space Agency Data

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UOgXzlf_igAfQi4Zwsh1B1iZYOjUvyqPVpE0YyAZ0xs/edit

Hackathon Journey

It was such a rush that the final product is not something we have expected to be, but we have a wonderful time working together.

References

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UOgXzlf_igAfQi4Zwsh1B1iZYOjUvyqPVpE0YyAZ0xs/edit


Slides & Design Tools: Canva


Web Hosting Tools:



  1. Google drive
  2. Google Docs

Tags

#game #jwst #boardgame #NASA

Learning Through the Looking Glass

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful, and most complex space science telescope ever built. Your challenge is to develop a game to help people learn about the James Webb Space Telescope’s amazing capabilities.