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.
Mission:PhoeniX
Mission:PhoeniX is a video game that aims to help people to have more accurate interpretations about the space debris problem and some of the challenges that face cleanup efforts using real-life/real-time data.
We built a web-based video game where the players try to catch as many satellites as they can before the fuel is over. The locations of satellites are mapped on the real-world/real-time locations using TLEs. We are currently tracking 370 non-operational low earth orbit satellites. The app is developed with Unity and deployed to web using Unity WebGL and MongoDB.
You can play our game from: https://space-phoenix.web.app
You can see our local presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aA0eN7RO7O...
For resources, we used:
* Space Birds Code Base (https://github.com/WorldWindLabs/SpaceBirds)
* Unity Asset Store (https://assetstore.unity.com/)
* Google Cloud Documentation
* Unity Documentation