MIT team places first in U.S. Air Force virtual reality Space competition
When the United States Air Force put out a call for submissions for its first-ever Visionary Q-Prize competition in October 2018, a six-person team of MIT students and alumni took up the challenge. Last month, they emerged as a first-place winner for their prototype of a virtual reality tool they called CoSMIC (Command, Sensing, and Mapping Information Center).
...to develop solutions for safe and secure operations in space.
CoSMIC, a virtual reality visualization tool for satellite operators, placed first in the Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality category. “More than 23,000 objects — from satellites to debris to spent rocket bodies — are in orbit and being tracked,” says Eric Hinterman, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and member of the winning team. “The challenge was to develop a user interface to help visualize these objects and predict if they’re going to collide, and what we can do to avoid that.”
The CoSMIC team includes MIT undergrads Eswar Anandapadmanaban, an electrical engineering and computer science major, and Alexander Laiman, a materials science major; grad student Eric Hinterman of aeronautics and astronautics; and alumni Barret Schlegelmilch SM ’18, MBA ’18, Steven Link SM ’18, MBA ’18, and Philip Ebben SM ’18, MBA ’18.
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