Category | Price | Seller | Device |
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Education | Free | NASA | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Learn the challenges NASA faces as it works to develop an inflatable spacecraft. Choose the right shape, materials and trajectory to use a HIAD to bring cargo back from space.
To successfully guide an inflatable spacecraft through the super heat of atmospheric re-entry requires the right stuff. If you inflate too early, your shape is incorrect or your material isn’t strong enough - you burn up. And if you get all that right and miss the target the mission is a bust.
Try your hand at landing a HIAD and become a rocket scientist. Advance through all stages at each of the four levels, collecting up to three stars for each successful landing.
The HIAD game challenges players to successfully land a HIAD after launching from the International Space Station and arriving at a target ground point on Earth. To successfully reach the target, players must:
•Undock from the ISS and use thruster control to steer the spacecraft towards the desired de-orbit point
•Inflate the HIAD aeroshell to reduce velocity and protect the payload from the heat of atmospheric re-entry
•Steer the inflated HIAD to the ground target prior to parachute deployment, taking into account the prevailing winds
•Customize the HIAD vehicle to achieve different performance characteristics to improve results
FEATURES
•Multiple spacecraft configurations and options
•Speed and trajectory controls
•In-game introduction
•Four levels of engineering mastery
•Locked levels
•Scoring for each level
•Help section
•Links to related website
I normally would rate this as a 5 star app but I recently upgraded my ipod to ios6 and now I can't even navigate the home screen. There are black spaces that should be filled in. Please fix this then it will be 5 star again!
I downloaded HIAD tonight and the screens will not function. I am running iOS6. Please fix this because I am interested in trying the app out.
The HIAD app is good at teaching how the system is expected to operate, as well as the challenges expected in even a "routine" operation. The downside, though, is that the app doesn't offer even basic information about the actual system, a rarity for NASA apps. No plan views, details on planned capabilities or mission profiles, not even an artist's rendering -- and I refuse to characterize the cartoon graphics as "rendering." (I am using iOS 5, so if you're using OS6, sorry.) Overall, though, I can easily give it four stars; it has a smooth learning curve and provides a quasi-realistic simulation of the system.
Overly and underly sensitive controls with Atari graphics, what's not to love. If NASA is headhunting for a job, I'm in. As a game, it's lame at best.
As far as I can tell it doesn't work on iPhone 6 plus, or iPhone 6.