High-Level Project Summary
We aimed at solving the "Track the Space Station in 3D" by building a web application to visualize earth globe in 3D and a view of realtime 3D model of International space station. This way we can track the space station in 3D, and add additional features like "When ISS passes by my location", historical view of ISS path, view of ground stations and LOS from ISS to each ground station. Moreover, we created a telegram bot to get the current location of ISS and the next time it will pass by your location with notifications.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Web application to visualize earth globe in 3D and a view of realtime 3D model of International space station. This way we can track the space station in 3D, and add additional features like "When ISS passes by my location", historical view of ISS path, view of ground stations and LOS from ISS to each ground station. Moreover, we created a telegram bot to get the current location of ISS and the next time it will pass by your location with notifications.
Features
- 3D Visualization
- Historical View
- Ground Projection
- When can I observe the ISS?
- Telegram Bot
- Solar Panel Rotation
- Shadow on Earth
Ground-station line of sight communication -
Telegram bot-
Backlog
- Trajectory
- Other Satellites & Space Garbage
- Gamification
Space Agency Data
- NASA WorldWind virtual globe
- NASA ISS 3D model
Hackathon Journey
Great experience at the Tel Aviv hub, we weren't coming from the space industry, but we were able to learn a lot and build a great project. We had to learn a lot of new technologies and space industry related terms, we were able to do it in a short time. We are looking forward to the next hackathon!
References
Technology stack
- Nasa WorldWind virtual globe
- https://wheretheiss.at/ API
- CelesTrak NORAD TLE
- Positionstack GEOCODING
- Ground stations open data
- Telegram bot
Tags
iss 3d tracker