Asteroid Surface VR – ASU – A

“Asteroid Odyssey: 16 Psyche”

INSTITUTION

Arizona State University (ASU)

CLASS

Tungsten Class (2023 – 2024)

STUDENT TEAM

Gavin Beaudry, Software Engineer
Esaias Glasco, Software Engineer
Grant Kelsay, Software Engineer
William Mastronardi, Software Engineer
Christopher Rogers, Software Engineer

 

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Vijay Suthar
Abdallah Moubayed
Kyle Cenatiempo
Cassie Bowman

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project seeks to offer an educational VR experience of what it might be like to explore the surface of an asteroid like Psyche. Users will be able to learn about its composition, and engage in learning modules about NASA’s Psyche Mission, Stereoscopic Images in Space Exploration, and other Asteroid Missions.

 

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Rochester Institute of Technology Capstone Course “SER 401”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.asu.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.