Skylax
Collect and develop geotagged information about local ties to space and aviation to incorporate within geo-based games/web applications/tools. Many apps and programs exist that allow users to input information about a location that corresponds to the real world. Public information and historical space events could be added to the location within the program. While exploring a new region, users can learning new facts about how the community played a role in new scientific discoveries or innovations in aviation or spaceflight.
We have chosen to tackle our problem through an interactive web app which has the purpose of educating and generating interest for space exploration within the younger population. This web app highlights the major events and scientific advances through technology that engineers, scientists, and researchers have come together to develop. The planetary coordinates were extracted from the NASA database and we were able to plot and showcase the orbital patterns on any given year and date. This visual representation of the solar system will hopefully make the information NASA collects more accessible and understandable for the public as well as stimulate young minds.
