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Mission Visualization Toolkit

The Mission Visualization Toolkit is a program that simplifies visualization for the SCaN network in space

Mission Visualization Toolkit

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Table of Contents

Contents
  1. Website Link
  2. Welcome
  3. About Us
  4. Getting Started
  5. Usage
  6. Previous Builds
  7. Contributions
  8. Acknowledgements

Website Link

To view the project navigate to this link.

To view the standalone navigate to this link.

Welcome

This Github Repository contains the source code that is used for the Mission Visualization Toolkit (MVT), a program that simplifies visualization for the Space Communications and Navigations (SCaN) network in 3D space. This project was developed as a part of a NASA internship opportunity.

About Us

Hello! We are a team of five high schoolers who were brought together by NASA and spent our summer working on this visualization. Throughout our time at NASA, sharing this project (and extensive amounts of time on Stack Overflow) caused us to become closer as teammates and friends. Get to know more about each of us and our roles here.

ELO Group

Aman, Arya, and Leo participated in an Experiential Learning Opportunity (ELO) this summer due to not meeting the age requirements to be official NASA interns. They did so after placing highly in NASA’s App Development Challenge (ADC) for their school.

Aman Garg

Also known as: AMOON

Gilman Upper School, Class of 2024

Future Biologist

Front End Developer

3D Modeling Expert

Valuable Experience in Starting Microsoft Teams Meetings

Vegetarian


Arya Kazemnia

Also known as: Array

Gilman Upper School, Class of 2024

Future Biomedical Engineer

Data Manager

Specialist in Everything

Still Developing Spelling Skills

Story Telling Master


Leo Wang

Also known as: Lei

Gilman Upper School, Class of 2024

Future Computer Scientist

Back End Developer

Programming Wizard

Public Speaking “Genius”

Remarkable Skills in Working Until 8 AM.

Intern Group

Vicki and Zoe were official interns and both participated in their first NASA internships this summer.

Vicki Carrica

Also known as: Vick

Old Saybrook High School, Class of 2023

Future Computational Biologist

Algorithm Engineer

Web Developer

Bagel Fanatic

Perfect Meeting Attendence Record


Zoe Schoeneman-Frye

Also known as: Zo

Montgomery Blair High School, Class of 2022

Future Computer Scientist

Test Engineer

Graphic Design

Anime Connoisseur

Fashionista

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this project, feel free to connect with us! We are more than happy to chat with you.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Adding The Project To Unity

This project was built on Unity. To be able to see it on that platform, perform the following steps:

Usage

MVT is built to extend the capabilities of STK and replace it in some capacity. It will allow SCaN systems to be visualized in an interactive space, one in which the perspective of the viewer could explore the 3D visualization with time manipulation as opposed to the video-like experience generated from STK. The operational cost of MVT is quite low, almost negligible, and it operates in real-time. To display STK in a browser is a time intensive and difficult task where MVT is less convoluted to make it more accessible to not only NASA employees but also NASA customers.

Upon opening MVT, you will see a screen with a start button. Click it to begin and be directed to the main view. Once the main view loads, you will be prompted to either build with the preset or build with a new scenario, for those with custom files. We recommend beginner users to start with the preset.

On the left toolbar, the fifth icon from the top, shaped as an “i”, is the information button. For more specific and detailed information regarding MVT usage, please refer to that.

Left Toolbar

All of the left tool bar buttons and their basic function, starting at the top and going down.

Bottom Toolbar

All of the botton toolbar buttons and their basic function.

Previous Builds

Here is a list of all working previous versions of our website. All versions can be found in the Builds folder of the Github repository.

Contributions

We welcome contributions and additions! To make a change you must:

Please be conscious of crediting our work when changes are made.

Acknowledgements

We’d like to begin by thanking NASA as a whole for the opportunity to intern this summer. The Goddard Space Flight center did a particularly good job of making our internships meaningful and exciting experiences. The Space Communications and Navigations (SCaN) team were incredibly welcoming and kind to us and aided us immensely during our project.

We cannot thank our mentor, George D. Bussey, enough for all of his help during this summer. He went above and beyond to provide an educational and worthwhile project. We would also like to thank our co-mentor, Elana Resnick, for helping those who attend Gilman school be a part of this project.

Finally, we would like to thank Jimmy Acevedo and Korine Powers for their role in making this summer so enjoyable.