New Ascent introduces students to the space industry by launching ChipSats to gather environmental info and tracking their descent in 3D as part of MISSION: SubSpace, an in-classroom aerospace mission experience that uses an interactive web portal built on CesiumJS.
ChipSats are taken up to altitude via drone, and, as they descend, they transmit and store environmental data, which is packaged as a CSV file. This time-series data is combined with high-resolution real-world terrain and imagery from Cesium World Terrain and Bing Maps Aerial imagery via Cesium ion, streamed as 3D Tiles to CesiumJS on student laptops.