Space invaders

Astronomy legacy

High-Level Project Summary

James Webb telescope is the latest NASA huge project that was built and launched this decade. Our project is to make a game to show the scientific miracle of the telescope and the difference between it and the Hubble telescope. In our game, we will include the main parts of the telescope and which are the primary and secondary mirrors, spacecraft bus, and sun shield. We also will include the launch of the rocket. It is important because it helps to help people who don’t know anything about the telescope to get a simple idea about the telescope and its mechanism.

Link to Final Project

https://that-alien-guy.itch.io/astronomy-legacy

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VR_BxsB7RuxxhlUBdBfw_sH3M6IZ9Q9a?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

Our project is an educational game that shows the benefits of the James Webb telescope and the difference between it and Hubble telescope. Our game consists of 4 levels, each level presents the main part of the telescope, its mechanism, and the challenges that it will face. The benefits of it are that it helps people to know what James Webb telescope is and what its main function is. I hope to build a good game that can be funny and educational at the same time. The code languages that we used were java script

Space Agency Data

In the space agency data we used we used the NASA-given resources and we found a very interesting journal post in the Canadian open data so we decided to use it as one of the main sources for our project to make the scientific side of the game and give this great invention its right.

Nasa partner: Canadian:. https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/jwst/about.asp

NASA sources:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/

External sources:

https://www.academia.edu/56981208/The_James_Webb_Space_Telescope

&&

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Spacecraft_bus

Hackathon Journey

Throughout the eras, the people tried to develop themselves, even in our time we are still trying ourselves by different ways in the different branches of science. The experience learning prove through the eras that it is the best way to achieve results maybe the humanity never dreamed to achieve in the past. In NASA space apps we experience this way seeking to push humanity to a new era of science by trying to explore the space and the origin of our world. We all learned through this a lot of skills like time management and even programming to help us in the challenges. We also learned about how humanity development that appears clearly in the James Webb telescope. We learned about how the telescope works and what it can afford to us. We as people who wants to be Enlighted by the science especially the space because it is something very interesting and unknown, and the humans with natural love to discover the unknown. So we decided to study about James Webb telescope to help us in this quest and not just that but we also want to make this great invention known by everyone so we raise the development of consciousness, and that’s why we started this challenge. The telescopes around the history were a huge surprise and gave us great leap in science, although we keep get surprise by every new telescope and what it can do like what Hubble telescope did. James Webb telescope is no exception, so we had to study it and even help sharing this achievement. The distances between our team members was the first problem we faced, however we solved it by the online meetings and workshops between us. We faced another problem that our challenge require programming experience but some of our team members didn’t have experience with the programming. We searched, found and finished online tutorials about programing and game making in a small period but we practice to gain experience and to overcome the lack of learning time problem.