Xspacious

Ajmer | Track the Space Station in 3D

PROSPECTOR

High-Level Project Summary

We developed an AR based web application that tracks the location of the ISS. It allows us to visit the International Space Station and learn about it's various modules. It observes the International Space Station's current location in real-time, and also provides a visual of how the ISS moves and looks from the inside and outside. Our project will also help the ASCANS to get habitual to the environment of the ISS. During their trainings they'll be able to get an idea about all the modules ,components and working of the ISS before actually having to work at the space station.

Link to Final Project

https://github.com/RyanWalker277/Spaceapps2022

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFNoWOILes/pA-8VP0iJV_HoX-91MmFPw/view?utm_content=DAFNoWOILes&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishpresent

Detailed Project Description

Our project is an AR based web application that observes the International Space Station's current location in real-time, and view the station's location. It provides brief information about the various modules of the ISS. It gives you tour of the interior and exterior if the space station. In the future through VR we hope to familiarize the ASCANS with the working and the environment of the ISS. To develop our project we used UNITY GAME ENGINE- a 2D &3D tool that provides the most robust tools for development, GOOGLE ARCORE- platform for building augmented reality experiences, C# - used for scripting.

How the Avatar will move inside the ISS:-

How The Web App will Track the location of the ISS:-

*The pink marker is showing the current location of the International Space Station

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Space Agency Data

To gain deep knowledge about the ISS - https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html , it provides us knowledge about the different modules of the ISS.

To know about the history and timeline of the ISS- https://www.issnationallab.org/about/iss-timeline/ , it helped us to know about all the changes and addition of the new modules that took place since the launch of the ISS.

To see the 3D model of the International Space Station- https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2378/international-space-station-3d-model/

for tracking the location of the ISS- http://open-notify.org/Open-Notify-API/ISS-Location-Now/

The history and making of the ISS made us very eager to explore and learn more about the station. Further with the 3D model and API to track the location inspired us to develop an AR based project that can locate the ISS and also provide a tour of the station.

Hackathon Journey

The NASA Spaces Apps challenge has been a magnificent experience. We got to learn about the making and working of the International space station. we also learnt about the various issues faced during the launch and docking of the modules. While going through all the problem statements, we landed on TRACK THE SPACE STATION IN 3D. Although tracking is not a difficult task but it inspired us to built an AR based web application that can make it easy for audience of any age group to be able to know the location of the ISS. We also aimed to provide high quality visuals to make it easy for anyone to understand and learn about the modules of the ISS. We started the project by doing basic research about the timeline and making of the ISS, learning about all it's various modules , it's basic working revolution time etc. and about all the space agencies contributing to it. We started developing the project using tools like Unity game engine, Google AR Core, C# for scripting .

References

About Modules: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-the-iss-58.html

Facts About ISS: https://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html

API To Track The Location: http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json

Tools Used: Unity Game Engine, Google AR core, C# and Bing Maps SDK.