High-Level Project Summary
PROBLEM: Many space station tracking programs are available on the Internet, but they often have limited features and capabilities. For example, some of them are two-dimensional and do not provide 3D images. Other trackers provide some 3D images, but show the station as a dot or 2D icon instead of a 3D model. OUR SOLUTION: We created a prototype website that tracks the ISS in real time in 3D. At the moment it is just an MVP, over the course of the hackathon, our team has big plans and a clear vision that will turn the MVP into a full-fledged platform for tracking, for training, for materials and presentations. There will be improved and accurate graphics and new 3D objects.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
As we've written before, the prototype tracks the ISS in real time in 3D, we used three.js to work with the 3D models on the site. The team has big plans and visions for this project. We want to make it not only a platform for tracking the ISS, but also for training, for research work, for studying the structure of similar stations and studying the history of the ISS.
Space Agency Data
We benefited greatly from the work with 3D Earth and ISS models templates, as well as the API for real-time tracking
Hackathon Journey
Of course the team was surprised that the task would be so difficult. We encountered problems with uploading 3D objects to the site, problems with API integration and with optimization. We would like to thank our organizers and mentors who helped us as if it was their own project and of course we didn't sleep for the first 24 hours and had many flops, we thought that we wouldn't make it, but in the end we did it.
References
All of our codes and materials that we used are uploaded on our githab at this link: https://github.com/DarkMortal/three-js-iss
Tags
#ISS, #3D, #realtime #tracking