NASA International Space Station Tracker

Now deployed to Heroku at https://nasa-iss-tracker.herokuapp.com/

Project definition

An interactive educational app built with JavaScript using Node.js, webpack and Express for the server side. It uses positional data from the International Space Station (ISS) as a fun way for users to retrieve educational material about locations around the Earth! Created within a 4-person Agile team over the course of a week.

MVP

• Take user selection of a location and display a prediction of the next time the ISS will be above that location.
• A dynamic map showing the ISS current location related to city selection.

Extensions

• Take user selection of a location and display educational material relevant to that location.
• Use NASA media resources to provide relevant and appealing background content.

Data sources used

• Open Notify API for the ISS data,
• Leaflet for map rendering
• Wikipedia API for additional information about locations
• Countries and cities npm packages