Touchscreen interface for the Alaska Satellite Facility's University of Alaska Museum of the North exhibit, running from May 2025 - January 2026.
The frontend is written in Godot, and allows users to rotate a camera around an animated model of a antenna and select satellites to track with the antenna. The 3D model is synced with a large scale model of the same antenna, that is controlled by the same interface.
The frontend primary controls are selecting a satellite to track and see some info about, as well as a button to start to "track" the satellite. The track button starts moving the 3D model, as well as sending a request to the backend API to start moving the real life model via the controller board's API.
The leftmost figure shows the relative position of the satellite to the antenna, as well as an estimated path the satellite will tack throughout its pass.
The middle chart shows the strength of the signal collected by the antenna throughout the pass.