MLHackathon Introduction
Exodus Orbitals is proud to announce WebNOVA II – our second space app hackathon, aiming for everyone in the world to participate. We will provide a set of challenges and datasets and the winner will get the opportunity to run their app in space, onboard the real satellite, NOVA, planned for launch at the end of 2024.
The theme of this hackathon is "Change Detection from Space" - given a satellite can fly over the same area over multiple dates, identify what has changed between the two passes during this dates.
Hackathon Challenges
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| “Snapshots!” (training) | Given a location on Earth, schedule taking two photos of it using our UI/API at different times/dates |
| Find that plane! | A plane has crashed in the area and it is imperative we find the location of the crash quickly. Compare the difference between two images before and after the event, find the crash location! |
| Deforestation challenge | Given the satellite imagery of forested area, find amount of trees that has been cut down between two dates. |
| Count the containers. | Given the image of shipping port, estimated how many containers have left or arrived at the port there, in 20TEU units between two dates. Note that containers can be stacked on top of each other. |
| Find a camouflaged object (Bonus) | There is a hidden object somewhere in the area... you don't know what it is and where it is, but you it exists! Find the object, from the imagery before and after object has been present |
Sponsors / Ecosystems / VCs / Launchpad Partners
Sidus Space is a vertically integrated Space and Defense-as-a-Service company providing low-cost, rapidly scalable, customized solutions and services across the space domain
Parsimoni is a European software startup focusing exclusively on space technologies. We develop and monetize a product – SpaceOS: an operating system for satellite builders and operators: more secure, more efficient, and more flexible vs. alternatives. Leveraging SpaceOS, we also develop a second offer - the world's first satellite as a service marketplace to change how the satellite industry works. Make access easy and affordable to satellite data users (pay as you go); standardize the software platform for app developers (no need to develop for each satellite one by one); and maximize the revenues for satellite owners.
Key Dates
- 2024.04.12 🔥 Hackathon event starts.
- 2024.05.04 🔥 Milestone Hackathon event ends.
- 2024.05.11 🔥 Milestone Winners announced, prizes awarded.
- 2024.06.01 🔥 Milestone NOVA Space Mission details announced. Winning team gets to fly their app in space, onboard the real satellite. Integration work with our satellite partner begins.
- 2024.12.31 🔥 Milestone NOVA mission launch, taking winners code beyond Earth. We plan to launch our satellite into space no later than that end of 2024.
Prize Pool Allocation and Prize Distribution
The best team will get microNOVA, a desktop cubesat simulator, worth $500 3 top teams will get the chance to fly their app in space next year with one of our satellite partners!
Submission Requirements
A github repo with code and short demo .
Developer Resources
Developer API will be available by Hackathon launch.
Discord channel: https://discord.gg/GFuTJhNGfW
Documentation:
Workshops & Office Hours
Will be available 24/7 During Apr 12th –Apr 14th.
Judge Criteria
- Completeness: 40%
- Innovation: 40%
- Visual design: 20%
Judge Panel
- Dennis Silin
- Bojan Seirovski
- Max Silin
- Hao Mack Yang Li
About Exodus Orbitals
Exodus Orbitals, a Canadian space startup founded in 2019 has vision to make space exploration accessible to everyone through their “satellite-as-a-service” virtualization platform, to be deployed on a variety of satellites in Low Earth Orbit. Using flight-proven technology validated through our work on European Space Agency OPS-SAT mission, Exodus Orbitals will open up a new development platform for the millions of users worldwide. Following the pattern of web and smartphone app markets, software applications in space will become a new area of exponential growth.