Inspiration
Initially, we wanted to build a disinformation tracker for space news. Conspiracies such as the moon landing being fake and flat earth would populate the website. This would allow people. especially science communicators, to track the current misinformation in the space area. Science Communicators could use this data to improve their communication with the public
What it does
We had to scale down from the conspiracy idea, so we ended up just trying to do regular news. That didn't work because RSS kept gaving us CORS errors so we didn't end up getting any news
How we built it
Using react native and typescript
Challenges we ran into
Trying to do requests with RSS to Nasa gave us CORS errors. We exhausted all of the solutions we could find (using a heroku proxy, making our own proxy) and unfortunately none of it worked
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We made a readable user interface at the very least
What we learned
We need to prototype our technologies before we use them
What's next for SPaceHub
We learned that we need to test API's before we use them. We tried using RSS but we got put down by 'CORS' errors which prevented us from finishing
We wanted to use RSS to retrieve space news, but it didnt work
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