VivaCell-MTS supports 5th int’l NASA Space Apps Challenge

PanARMENIAN.Net - The fifth international Space Apps Challenge of NASA – the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration – took place in Byurakan Observatory in Armenia’s Aragatsotn province.

Different teams took part in the challenge held from April 22 to April 24, 2016, developing applications on the Space Apps Challenge themes: Technology, Aeronautics, Space station, Solar system and beyond, Earth, Journey to Mars.

In general, the challenge gives the participants an opportunity to meet important objectives: develop a solution that can be put into practical use, employ NASA databases and those of other important organizations in the process of product development, compete in an open innovative platform among other things.

The NASA Space Apps Challenge-Armenia lasted for 24 hours. Armenia’s leading telecommunications operator, VivaCell-MTS provided the participants of the Challenge with high-speed Internet access. For two days, on April 22 and 23, the teams pitched their innovative solutions and ideas in front of the panel, consisting of local and international specialists. The products submitted to the contest were based on the solutions, innovations and ideas of beginner, student, expert engineers, coding programmers, designers, and analysts. The works were unveiled with the help of data virtualization, devices and special equipment, coding, design and other means.

X-Tech Company organized the Armenian stage of the international challenge.

Stressing Armenia’s role in the development of astronomy, VivaCell-MTS supported the Byurakan Observatory in the past years. In 2007, the Company made contributions for upgrading and renovating Byurakan Observatory telescope management system. State-of-the-art equipment was obtained for the work of the 2.6 meters long telescope of the Byurakan Observatory; a 1-meter long Schmidt telescope was also renovated.