CSS and color designing is difficult, this update took quite a while…
Try out the preview at nadir-space.vercel.app!
Finished the code to retrieve search results from the backend! Also filled in more sections of the sidebar.
Next - show the search results in the scroll region, and handle search page flips.
Added filters for launch site. Launch sites are populated automatically based on whichever countries are selected.
Suggestions and improvements on GUI design are welcome!
Next steps - Get the filtered satellites from the backend, and display them below the search filter on the sidebar as item boxes.
Will also need to add trajectory tracking later.
Working on some backend code for filtering satellite entries…
This feature may take some time
Started work on the filter sidebar (suggestions on design improvements pls!!)
Working with CSS is horrible, it takes me way too long to make a simple element fit properly..
Added the layouts for the search and info sidebar
Next - populate the sidebars, first with the search function
Successfully rendered the satellites as moving dots!
Now working on the GUI, including trajectory tracking, filtering, and loading screens.
Managed to write an API endpoint to retrieve satellite ID’s based on filters, will be used later in the frontend
Next step - render the satellites as dots.
Completed code to retrieve catalog of satellites, and store it in NeonDB!
I might get banned from spacetrack bcz of the unholy number of API requests I fired for debugging…
It took me embarrassingly long to implement such a simple helper function!
Finally though, I managed to be able to sign in to spacetrack, and store the session cookie provided in vercel blob storage. Most of my time went in debugging errors with blob storage, but now that I’ve learnt that, progress should be faster!
Deployed the app on vercel, with a cesium js renderer!
