C.O.S.M.O.S

This is the final devlog for this project! It was a great experience getting to build this.

Added:

• The ISS and it’s own path
• RF Engineering and displaying signal connection

Stuggles:

• Nothing much today, it was mostly just copy pasting previous code.

I got pretty far today. It was mostly just a repeat of last devlog, adding another satellite using similar code but the latitude coordinates were hard to manage.

Added:

• COSMOS-2 which is similar to COSMOS-1 but with different colors and goes North and South
• Control Panel on the top corner of the screen showing basic information such as activity

Struggles

• It was hard to control the latitude of COSMOS-2’s coordinates
• It took a while to learn how to create a sci-fi panel style

Next:

• Adding more information to the space panel

I created the first satellite (COSMOS-1) which orbits in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) with a designated path around the top of the Earth. I also set Mission Control to California!

Added:

• Goldstone Ground Control in California
• Fixed a Camera Tracking Bug to make a Cinematic Entrance to Ground Control
• Added COMOS-1, the first satellite of many to come, which orbits in LEO (Low-Earth-Orbit)
• Added COMOS-1’s flight path

Struggles:

• The flight path wouldn’t generate properly for a long time. Fixed it with an array which generates multiple points finally creating a circle.
• Had to use AI to fix many many typos that I couldn’t find :(.

Next Steps:

• Second Satellite going North to South And the ISS in real time.
• A Clean Panel Showing important information on the side.

This is the first step in this project. It visualizes the Earth with Cesium (which took me a long time before I started recording this to learn). I used HTML and Local Server within VS Code to create this simulation of Earth. Next, I need to add a coordinate plane for this simulation.