Description
Artificial satellites are human-built objects orbiting the Earth and other planets in the Solar System. This is different from the natural satellites. Artificial Satellites are used to study the Earth, other planets, to help us communicate, and even to observe the distant Universe. Satellites can even have people in them, like the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. The primary focus of this thesis is explaining the purpose of major satellite programs of different countries, and giving information about major satellites launched between 2000–2015. This is explained through a GIS application built using JAVA, and MOJO(Map Objects Java Objects), provided by ESRI(Environmental System Research Insitute). The MOJO module was used to read in the data from a CSV file, make a layer out of it, and eventually create a new shape file. The application gives information about the major satellites launched by various countries, including the time and space information, purpose of the launch, year of launch, and the country which launched the satellite. This tool has a number of HTML pages. The user can click on a 'hotlink' tool in a custom toolbar, and then click on a point on the map, which results in opening up an HTML page. The goal of the application is educating a common person about satellite programs and their purposes. To help accomplish this, the application gives information about major satellites launched and the purpose of the launch. To increase the audience for the application, steps are taken to make it accessible to disabled people about the satellite programs
