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In an impressive show of international collaboration, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have teamed up to launch a virtual hackathon that will run between May 30 and May 31. , with the objective of using open data to develop innovative solutions to the problems derived from the global pandemic COVID-19.
Obviously, the three space agencies work together on a regular basis, but this effort, dubbed the “Space Applications COVID-19 Challenge,” aims to pool their resources during a concentrated 48-hour sprint to employ Earth observation data collected by satellites, information that should be helpful in examining how the virus spreads and what kind of impact it is having on Earth, ecosystems and cities.
Each agency involved provides access to data collected from the satellites they operate respectively, and although Space Apps has previously been run as a regular challenge offered by NASA to encourage the use of their data for innovative problem solving and product development. . However, this is the first time that all agencies are collaborating on a global virtual hackathon.
NASA has also used its own internal crowdsourcing platform to search for ideas on how the agency can address the COVID-19 crisis and the problems caused by the coronavirus and its spread. However, the Space Apps Challenge is open to external participants and often involves teams of students, science and engineering from around the world.
