The European Space Week will be THE event for European Space in 2017 fostering interactions between the space and the digital community. For the second year in a row Garage48 will kick off the week-long event by organizing a hackathon , this year with amazing partners on board

we welcome you to

Garage48 SpaceTech: Integrated Applications hackathon

ESA (European Space Agency)

Isn’t the European Space Agency a bunch of astronauts and rocket scientists? What does ESA have to do with hackathons and building services? A lot! From space, our planet’s atmosphere, land, and water can be monitored for multiple application fields. ESA is responsible for the satellites of the European Copernicus programme which is doing exactly that. And ESA is also very interested in making Earth Observation data more and more popular, also for those who have not yet discovered their usefulness for enriching apps and services. It’s a chance to make the resulting information accessible to a broad audience and create value in the process!  

Technology available: ESA will provide an API that will contain access to Earth Observation data, in particular to those from the Copernicus programme. The geographical area to be used is the Baltic States and the surrounding waterways.

GSA (European GNSS Agency)

When was the last time you used a satellite? Likely, not more than 5 minutes ago. Positioning is a core asset of our lives and society as we know it. Yet, because space technology is somehow remote, we tend to forget what enables us to position ourselves, our means of transport or any other asset we may want to track: satellite navigations systems such as GPS, Galileo or Glonass.

Galileo - the European Global Navigation Satellite System  - is now operational and is delivering live services to the Geo-IoT community.

This year GSA is joining Garage48 SpaceTech, looking for pioneers and passionate coders who want to shape the future of Location-Based Services (LBS) and Geo-IoT, and discover how Galileo satellites can help transform ideas into reality!

Join the hackathon, showcase your skills, connect with the Geo-IoT app-dev community, gain a competitive advantage for your future projects and win great prizes for you and your team.

Technology available: Galileo enabled hardware with GNSS raw measurements to play with.

ESTCube

The evolution of small satellites has made space technology more accessible to the private sector and entrepreneurs. Advances in the miniaturization of electronic components and breakthroughs in space technology have enabled small satellites (10x10x10cm and multiples of) to perform a wide variety of operations with ever increasing efficiency and ease. Small satellite missions range from, but are not limited to: earth observation, telecommunications, demonstrating new spacecraft technologies and even asteroid mining.

ESTCube is the team behind the first Estonian satellite launched to space in 2013. At the hackathon, they would be responsible for helping you integrate the hardware components into your ideas. The technical mentors will be helping out with all IoT solutions, extra points if you choose to integrate with other satellite data streams.

Technology available: ESTCube will be responsible for all the hardware equipment at the event. 

There are 3 different Laboratories you can use in Physicum. 1) with white board and computers, 2) for electronics and 3) for mechanics.

Laboratories are equipped with basic lab tools.

Electronics lab includes soldering tools, multimeter, power supply, oscilloscope and signal generator.In electronics lab we shall also have Rasbperry evaluation boards for programming.The mechanics lab include drill press, one lathe and CNC for wood and plastic.

We will also have the option for on demand 3D printing with supervision. So, please let us know if your idea requires the need for 3D printing!

All other necessary materials will be ordered before the event as needed by your needs! So, please let us know as soon as possible your idea and what would you need.

If you do not know what you need but you have an idea, ESTCube team can help you to understand what you will need! Write to space@garage48.org!

The hackathon challenge:

Come up with exciting ideas, 

use different elements from different streams to 

create integrated solutions and meet like-minded people

to explore and learn about the possibilities of space technology.

4 main themes: 

Galileo data, 

Copernicus data, 

hardware, 

social media  

10 focus domains:

1.       Games (Galileo, Copernicus, social media)

2.       Agriculture (Galileo, Copernicus, hardware)

3.       Security (Galileo, Copernicus)

 a.       Boarder protection

 b.      Crisis management

4.       IoT applications (Galileo, hardware, social media)

 a.       Smart cities

 b.      Industry4.0

5.       Public services / e-Governance (Copernicus, Galileo, social media)  by CGI Eesti 

6.       Transport

 a.       Aviation

 b.      Maritime

 c.       Rail

 d.      Road

7.       Environmental Protection

8.       Lifestyle

 a.       Tourism,

 b.      Health;

9.       Mapping; Surveying

10.   Other topics out of the box