SpaceCRAFT is a VR sandbox environment for collaborative space system and mission design. The platform enables users to design, evaluate, and experience technologies for future space operations. SpaceCRAFT allows individuals and organizations to contribute to space exploration and development.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Designing and testing space missions and systems often requires integrating components developed by different teams and institutions, making comprehensive, integrated testing difficult. This can lead to overlooked system deficiencies and suboptimal mission performance. Current methods lack the ability to test complete space mission architectures in a collaborative, integrated fashion, especially early in the design process.
Solution
SpaceCRAFT provides a multi-user virtual reality (VR) platform for collaborative space system and mission design, enabling users to design, evaluate, and experience technologies for future space operations. The platform serves as a VR "sandbox" environment where students, government entities, and commercial organizations can collaborate on designs, evaluate performance, and experience simulated space environments. SpaceCRAFT facilitates scenario-based operational testing of integrated mission concepts using detailed physics and engineering models within VR. It integrates with common CAD, simulation, programming, and analytical tools through APIs, allowing for customizable user interfaces and the creation/sharing of models and simulations online.
Target Audience
The primary users are students, government organizations, and commercial entities involved in space system design, mission planning, and technology development.
Features
- Multi-user/multi-player scenario-based event-driven VR simulations
- Model templates for articulating 3D objects, dynamics, and analytical code
- High-fidelity environment models incorporating gravity, radiation, atmospheres, and terrain
- Integrated APIs with common CAD, simulation, programming, and analytical tools (Matlab, C++, Blender, ROS, TRICK, etc.)
- Customizable User Interface tools—displays, controls
- Ability to create and share models and simulations online
- Advanced tools for planet creation, artificial intelligence, and engineering algorithms