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!

Space Hunting

​Our team selected the Living in Our World category, specifically the Set Your Sights High challenge. We aimed a large user base, through a playful and informative experience that our mobile app offers.

Space Rangers

Our team selected the Living in Our World category, specifically the Set Your Sights High challenge. We aimed a large user base, through a playful and informative experience that our mobile app offers. The goal is not just to inform, neither only nurture of entertainment, but to join the best of the two worlds, through fun challenges that, directly or indirectly, enrich the user's knowledge. Therefore, we offer a tool to help users to structure new paradigms that can solve their problems. Based on the successful games that were highlighted through the use of augmented reality and concepts that involve learning within apps, the data supplied by NASA become user-friendly and represents a market differential.

In our app, we use a Rest Architecture, where the back-end is powered by NodeJS and the mobile interface was built using Java. Initially, the TLE Api supplied by NASA was used, however, that won't be the only one filling the user's lack of knowledge about satellites. We want to structure a set of data that enriches our app, allowing people to know more and search even more about the game's theme.

Through three main screens, the user can have a base with resources, an interactive interface that allows catching the satélites pressing on the screen and a configuration menu. It's also possible to repair and construct buildings with the collected resources. An augmented reality screen0 enables a space-view, rendering satellites in real-time, using a package that calculates their positions, instead of getting their info in the source every time.

Essentially, the background story is: In 2038, there was a breakdown in space, generating an explosion of energy that affected all satellites on earth, causing a major loss for space companies as they lost the geolocation of all their satellites. You are a NASA astronaut and have been summoned to solve this problem. Your mission is to locate as many satellites as possible, identify them and re-establish your signal. In the course of your journey, you may encounter stellar bodies such as meteors and meteorites. Identifying them is a very complex challenge, but can give you extra score. Join us and good luck on your journey!