High-Level Project Summary
Tracko Sate is a web application that allows users to track the International Space Station (ISS) and provides an interactive, 3D visualisation of the Earth, the space station orbit and the Space station itself. We have developed our web application, in consideration of these points these Predict the overhead passes given a geographical locationDisplay accurate representations of solar panels.We have made our web application easily accessible to usersWe have used the data provided from NASA to produce several components that we have used when developing our app, ie software, orbital parameters, data on ground station link availability, 3D models, etc.
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Detailed Project Description
Tracko Sate is a web application that allows users to track the International Space Station (ISS) and provides an interactive, 3D visualisation of the Earth, the space station orbit and the Space station itself.
We have developed our web application, in consideration of these points these
Our app can provide a wide variety of practical and fun features:
- Allow users to browse the position of the space station across time
- Predict overhead passes given a geographical location
- We have made our web application easily accessible to users
We have used the data from NASA to produce several components that we have used when developing our app, ie software, orbital parameters, data on ground station link availability, 3D models, etc.
We have created this project with the hope that we could provide a useful tool to the community and encourage the developing curiosity and interest in young minds on space and its mysteries.
We have used the data provided like the 3D model by Michael Carbajal, and others, and we have used React js to build our app.
Space Agency Data
we have used the data from NASA
3d model, ISS by Michael Carbajal. NASA Headquarters which is applied to our project as the model for ISS.
we also used the data on the longitude and latitude of the space station from the Spot The Station by NASA
Hackathon Journey
So far our Space Apps experience has been educational and inspiring. The Space Apps challenge
is something I have heard many times from my friends and my brother but had never got a chance to participate in one until now. When I heard about how much one achieved in a short time, I was very sceptical about it. I could never think of myself achieving so much in such a short time.
When we joined Space apps, we were amused to hear experiences from other participants and how they learnt a topic from scratch and successfully implemented it within the deadline. It got us thinking again, will we be ever able to do it? And most of the seniors kept saying that it was the best thing that happened. We learnt a lot from it. Never miss any opportunity to participate in
My team members/friends Jesvin, Rahul and Aldrin pushed me saying, “It’s just 2 days let’s give it a try”
Our journey has been a different experience as two of the teammate including me were unable to join at the venue offline and had to connect with them on a virtual platform ( discord ) but thankfully we here able to complete our challenge without many difficulties
Thanks to the support from other teams at the venue, we can confidently say, we have learnt and implemented a lot of new concepts in 2 days. This challenge has boosted our confidence levels very high. Thanks to Space Apps and all the organizers for this wonderful opportunity.
References
Earth map image
Michael Carbajal, February 19, 2009, NASA 3D resources, October 1 2022, <https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/iss-c2>
Tags
#satellite tracker, #ISS