Orbital Systems
Exploring the Milky Way Solar System in Virtual Reality (VR) While Orbiting Earth Inside the International Space Station
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Badge Audience
This badge is intended for students in grades 6 through 8.
Time to Complete this Badge
It will take a student about 3 hours to complete this badge.
Badge Objectives
Students will:
- Learn about virtual reality (VR) and other technologies that influence society through the interdependence of science, engineering, and technology as applied by scientists and engineers at NASA. (MS-ESS1-3)
- Explore and use a model to describe the role of gravity and orbit in our solar system. (MS-ESS1-2)
- Analyze and interpret data using the orbital calculation to determine orbital parameters. (MS-ESS1-3)
- Using VR in the given space station model, analyze the solar system for the impact of orbital changes.(MS-ESS1-1)
An introduction to your mission from Astronaut, Anima Patil-Sable
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Who constructed this badge? |
The team effort and collaboration between many professionals in different disciplines aligned in the common topic of virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR) and this educational badge about Orbital Systems. Each party came from a different academic and/or professional background, such as education, engineering, art & design, social work, and architecture & construction, and were brought together with the common interest of this project. This team provides an example of how diverse the STEM educational programs can be and how common threads are intertwined and can be focused on special topics. For your reference, the following links share the background of each team member with their appropriate training and areas of interest.
| Faculty Members | Graduate Students |
| Dr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz Links to an external site. | Dante Cash |
| Dr. Nir Keren Links to an external site. | Nathanael Loden |
| Dr. George Koutitas Links to an external site. | Tejasvi Madgulkar |
| Mr. Grayson Lawrence Links to an external site. | Varun Siddaraju |
| Dr. Scott Smith Links to an external site. | |
| Dr. BJ Spencer Links to an external site. |