Orbinator

Orbinator| Orbital Scrap Metal — The Video Game

Project Details

The Challenge | Orbital Scrap Metal — The Video Game

Nuts, bolts, spent rocket stages, and broken pieces of satellites orbiting Earth are just a few of the many thousands of items known as orbital debris, or space junk. Your challenge is to create an orbital debris collection videogame web-app! You may build upon NASA’s Spacebirds and real data.

Exposes a general user to the complexities and key concepts of the orbital debris problem. Launch Direction ,Debris Cloud Zones, Altitude Adjustment, Inclination Changes, Target Types, and Disposal Techniques

( Resources used NASA WordWind, scenarios from NASA Documentation and Data: Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science - ORBITAL DEBRIS PROGRAM OFFICE ( ORDEM and LEGEND , NASA and USAF data via CelesTrac and Space-Track.org ))Expose a general user to the complexities and key concepts of the orbital debris problem.

Launch Direction
Debris Cloud Zones
Altitude Adjustment
Inclination Changes
Target Types
Disposal Techniques

Game genre: Strategy vs. First Person Shooter!Spacecraft is a “Carrier” with specialized “Drone” vehicles.

Beamers - Paint chips, wrap fragments
Collectors - Nuts and bolts – return to carrier
De-Orbiters – Boosters and entire cubesats

User traverses a Chain of Decision Scenarios 3x3

User selects Launch Site and Direction for Debris Cloud Zone
Maneuvers ‘Carrier’ to an optimum central position
Using HUD, allocates ‘Drones’ by target type, size, by orbital plane and velocity change required

HUD is not NOT ‘3-d Space’, the INNOVATIVE display depicts ‘Orbital Energy Space’ and Critical Elements: •Energy Budgets •Inclination Changes •Drone assignment and Dispatch

HUD display Elements are also the ‘Controls’

Links:

Simulation: https://youtu.be/J8rP4xjQOvQ(Video)

https://warycat.github.io/orbinator/ (To watch)

https://warycat.github.io/orbinator/ (Source Code)

Game Play: https://github.com/mattwcook/Orbinator