Description

Overview:

"Build It Yourself: Satellite!" is an online Flash game hosted on the James Webb Space Telescope website. The goal of the game is to explain the decision-making process of satellite design. The user can choose to build a "small," "medium," or "large" astronomy satellite. The user then selects science goals, wavelength, instruments, and optics. The satellite is then launched on the appropriate rocket (shown via an animation). Finally, the user is shown what their satellite might look like, as well as what kind of data it might collect, via examples from similar real-life satellites. Satellites range from small X-ray missions without optics (like the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer) to large missions with segmented mirrors (like the James Webb Space Telescope).

Subject:

Engineering, Technology, Geoscience, Physics, Space Science

Level:

High School, Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division, Graduate / Professional, Career / Technical

Grades:

Grade 11, Grade 12

Material Type:

Activity/Lab, Game

Provider:

NASA

Provider Set:

NASA Wavelength

Date Added:

11/05/2014