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Global Nominee

The Challenge | Up, Out, and Away!

Your challenge is to generate a virtual reality environment or game related to the James Webb Space Telescope’s mission. Allow the user to follow Webb on its journey from launch to its final destination in orbit a million miles away from Earth!

EXPLORER

Our idea is to create a simulated gaming app developed by using the provided data of NASA. Our gaming app will be mainly focused on the mission of James Webb Space Telescope.

ASSR EXPLORER

Overview:

The James Webb Space telescope is a large, space-based observatory, optimized for infrared wavelengths, which will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. James Webb telescope will have the largest mirror than other telescope.It will detect infrared wavelength more than 400 times better than current telescope. It will have the ability to see the first stars, galaxy and planet forming after big bang.It may us to create the map of universe. But, huge number of people are ignorant and indifferent about it.

On the other hand, people like to play games rather than reading books. Currently, almost, 2.2 billion people of world like to play game. If the James Web Telescope observatory missions can be learnt through games, then knowledge will be gained and people will also be entertained and enjoyed. That’s why, our proposed solution is a simulated gaming app that will help common people to understand about the objective, mechanisms, significance and future missions of James Webb Space Telescope.We used 3D resources of NASA website for making the game. Our game will be compatible in all kind of platform.

Our proposed solution is under the category of “To the stars” of NASA Space App Challenge 2019. Among 4 sub category our solution is related with “Up, out and away” sub- category. According to this sub category our gaming app will be mainly focused on the mission of James Webb Space Telescope.

Some keyfeatures of our game:

  • The story of the game will make sure that our game is both fun and informative.
  • Game revolves around James Webb telescope and its orbit. Instruments, alignments of the planets detailed mission objective of James Webb telescope will be learnt through the game.
  • Player will be given the task of controlling the telescope from base on earth.
  • In game James Webb telescope will face many obstacles in the orbit like planets, comets, space debris, gravitational force from astronomical objects asteroid, solar radiation etc. Gamer need to play by avoiding these obstacles. The player has to find the optimal solution of these issues.
  • In the story of our game journey and evaluations of space observatory missions will be described in trivia. In game user will have many to pass many levels. In each level user has to answer some questions about other space observatory telescope like as Hubble, Splitzer which will be presented to user in earlier level. User will get extra life by giving correct answer. We will add these features by the by on upcoming updates.
  • We also provide the gamer with 3 different orbitalperspective simulation.

- One is from the perspective of James Webb telescope togive experience regarding the orbital path of James Webb Telescope.

- Second one is the orbital simulation of James Webb telescope. As a result, user can experience how it will evolve in it’s orbit.

- Last simulation is from solar system.It will show the alignment of James Webb telescope with sun and earth. As a result,user can understand the reason for this alignment. James Webb Telescope revolves unlikely to other telescopes due to longer orbital radius than earth and smaller gravitational force from both sun and earth

Impact ofour game:

1.Our game is educative and influential for young generations

2. It will fulfill the recreational purpose of gamer.

3. Mass people can learn about the importance of space observation missions like as Hubble, Spitzer and James Webb telescope

4. By simulation and realistic game play user can have the feel of real space missions.