Space Apps Challenge 2018

For more detailed introduction, please visit our Github repo:

https://github.com/Kamigami55/DCSS-1

1. BASIC IDEA

DCSS-1 is a new type of spacecraft designed to cleanup orbital debris around Earth.

It contains the following key components:

- Spacecraft body ( a 10km long rope with heavy loads on 2 side )

- Solar sails

- Debris capture web ( can be stored in the rope )

- 5 Movable heavy loads

- Tidal power generator

We try to obtain the orbit debris data and converse them into the longitude and latitude data. And display these information on a web using javascript and webGL. Also, with these data, we designed a new type of space ship to collect these debris. The importance of our design is that we only need to supply the fuel once and for all. The space ship will move by itself automatically. We illustrate such a model using 3D modeling.

2. TECHNOLOGY DETAILS

(1) Orbital debris visualization

Live demo: http://makereallabs.com/Cesium_with_SGP.html

Data resource: NORAD & NASA TLE (https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/)

Technologies we used:

- Satellite.js: Converting TLE data format to SGP4

- Cesium.js: Visualizing objects on virtual globe

(2) CHARACTERISTIC of Spacecraft

1. Use the gravity of earth to implement semi-automatic self-generating electric power

2. New solution to clean the space debris

3. Reusable

4. Less fuel consumption

5. Use solar sails as power source to fix the latitude

6. Targeting orbital debris by TLE data from NORAD & NASA

(3) Design of SPACECRAFT

It contains the following key components:

- Spacecraft body ( a 10km long rope with heavy loads on 2 side )

- Solar sails

- Debris capture web ( can be stored in the rope )

- 5 Movable heavy loads

- Tidal power generator

3. OUR Project related links

Project Github: https://github.com/Kamigami55/DCSS-1

Presentation (Powerpoint): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DceDTZ9Sdh7Bcu7WrRrVSJb9wR8Y28c-/view?usp=sharing

Orbital Debris Live demo: https://whatarewedoinghereohohoh.github.io/OrbitalDebrisVisualization/index.html

4. references

https://github.com/daoneil/spacemission

http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/pres/stsc2011/tech-31.pd...