Endurance Project: Democratizing Space
This is post is part of our What’s Possible with Unreal series. Learn how educator Marc Dubeau and his students at Osgoode Township High School are taking their STEM skills to new heights to support an exciting new space mission in partnership with IBM Space and SpaceX.
Grade 11 and 12 Communications Technology students at Osgoode Township High School are taking their skills to new heights to support an exciting new space mission. They’ve teamed up with IBM Space, SpaceX, and two other schools in the United States to prepare for the launch of the ENDURANCE CubeSat satellite mission on May 25, 2022.
Their task? Designing a virtual-reality simulation of the earth and the satellite, and using the 3D creation tool, Unreal Engine to make a short film imagining the launch.
Over the past few months, the students have applied their virtual production, coding and design skills to build a “digital twin” of the earth using Unreal Engine, Blender, and Cesium. They used this digital twin to make a virtual production video simulating the launch, to generate buzz about the upcoming mission.
All models were created by students at our partner school Springs Charter School from California.
Here is a video of the virtual production of the launch created by Elliot Andrews-West and Emma Smith with footage built by the whole class using Unreal Engine 5 :
Here is a student video by Michael Fong and Marko Celenkovic :
Click here for footage of the real launch
Here is an image of the cubesat being launched into space.
About the Author:
Marc Dubeau
“I am a high school technology teacher who enjoys staying up to date with the latest industry trends. I have been teaching for over 23 years.”