This year’s Space Apps competition announced two teams as its victors, claiming three awards between them.
‘What’s Up?’ scooped up two of the awards, ‘Best Use of Data’ and ‘People’s Choice’, with ‘What’s Next?’ claiming the final ‘Best Mission Concept’.
The news was announced by head judge Gav Winter via Twitter: ‘Well done WhatsUp & WhatsNext winning @SpaceAppsYork #spaceapps. Great comp & talented people’.
The ‘What’s Up?’ team created a website ‘which allows users to subscribe to daily updates and watch live feeds about various night sky events visible to the naked eye’, whilst ‘What’s Next?’ devised ‘a one stop resource, providing information on all exploratory missions to other planets and objects in the solar system’.