Quattro formaggi| Set Your Sights High!
Project Details
The Challenge | Set Your Sights High!
NASA builds and operates numerous satellite and airborne missions that deliver critical measurements and data to the world’s science community. Your challenge is to develop a tool that enables people to identify NASA satellites and satellite instruments as they fly over their locations on Earth. Help people explore the data and applications coming from the instruments overhead!
Emojillite
Emojillite is a tool for people to explore main satellites that orbit Earth and discover the data they are collecting
🛰️ EMOJILLITE 🛰️
Problem 🤔
A lot of people are unfamiliar with the contribution done by various satellites which monitor earth and collect the data about our planet.
Solution 💡
Emojillite uses emojis to visualize the real-time satellite data as well as their positioning to entertain and educate people on what data is collected and what it is used for.
Specifics 💻
- Displaying top ~10 most important satellites at the moment. Update their position in real-time.
- Displayig the satellites as emoji’s corresponding to the themes of their missions.
- For each satellite display the data it is currently collecting.
NASA RESOURCES 📡
- EarthData (NOAA data)
- WorldWind (Planet simulation)
Other Resources📡
- Celestrak (Two line elements sets, Satellite positioning)
- Django (backend and API)
Future Plans 🔮
- Adding more satellites and displaying more information about them
- Correctly display the data collected by the selected satellites
Try it out 🌎
GitHub: https://github.com/ANDREYDEN/space-apps-2019
Tags #️⃣
#satellite #earthdata #nasa #tracking #emojis #python #javascript #worldwind #fun