Indian Student Wins NASA Moon To Mars App Development Challenge, And Here’s The App Made By His Team

NASA has announced the winners for this year’s Artemis Next-Gen STEM – Moon to Mars App Development Challenge, and Indian high school student Aryan Jain is part of the team that won the prestigious coding challenge. In this year’s challenge, NASA Space and Navigation Communications (SCaN) asked students to develop an app that could help in mission planning and exploration activities of the Lunar South Pole. Jain is part of “Team Unity” which included fellow students Anika Patel, Andy Wang, Franklin Ho, Jennifer Xiong, Justin Ji, and Vedika Kothari, representing a joint team of 5 global schools between different under the direction of Whitney High School, USA. Team Unity was now almost invited to engage with NASA business leaders and leadership in February.

Team Unity developed the app using Unity’s cross-platform gaming engine and programmed it in C #. Some of the features for the app include a small map that would allow astronauts to see the location from a spellpoint that will help measure progress on the path between the landing site and destination and option for the astronaut to move between the first and third. person watching scenes. The app has spying options, landscape textures and 3D views. To create the app, the team used the available South Pole lunar terrain data. Jain is a student at GurCram SunCity School.

NASA says the Next Gen STEM has missions aimed at NASA’s Exploration for Moon to Mars. With a focus on NASA’s integrated transportation systems and platforms, namely the Orion capsule, the Space Launch System (SLS Rocket) and the Lunar Outpost Gateway. These challenges are part of the mission to land the first female astronaut and the next batch of astronauts on the moon by 2024.