Astronautics popularization via modern devices
- Paper number
IAC-13,E1,6,3,x20102
- Author
Mr. Vaclav Dajbych, Kosmo Klub, Czech Republic
- Coauthor
Mr. Michal Vaclavik, Czech Space Office, Czech Republic
- Year
2013
- Abstract
In today's world media classify news value by entertainment instead of importance. Astronautics is everything but fun. Kosmo Klub, Czech space society, created a mobile application helping astronautics popularization. The application letting people know about upcoming launches and provides them information about rockets, payloads and spaceports. It contains launch countdown, photos of rocket, satellite and spaceport together with its short description. It does not contain technical details, but concisely covers technical complexity to wake interest. The application has over 600 downloads for Windows 8 devices which are fresh on the market.
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