State of the art database - EPIC

[Suzibianco]

This series of issues aims to create a database of the state of the art of the different space systems.
Please create the database on a google spreadsheet and link it to the corresponding task.

• Power [ State of the art database: power #5 ]
• Launch [ State of the art database: launch #6 ]
• Propulsion [ State of the art database: Propulsion #7 ]
• ECLSS [ State of the art database: ECLSS #8 ]
• Radiation Protection [ State of the art database: Radiation protection #9 ]
• Artificial Gravity [ State of the art database: Artificial gravity #10 ]

**Please do not work on THIS task, pick one of the linked tasks! **

If you want to add input to an existing database, you earn 2 points. Please comment and link your contribution on THIS task.

[erikkulu]

I would recommend Airtable instead of Google Spreadsheet for better design, ability to add photos and files to a cell and simple API. One example https://airtable.com/universe/expsxXXmowd4q69w3/vr-and-ar-startups?explore=true

[Suzibianco]

Erik, this is a great idea,I had never heard of Airtable before. I guess people can use what ever program they feel comfortable with, as long as it is easy to have other people collaborate and update. Once we have a functioning wiki everything will be transfered there.

[stellarmagnet]

@erikkulu it looks like unless you pay, we will only have 2 weeks of revision history (being able to revert changes) if we used Airtable, which doesn't seem that sustainable as our user base grows... if we want longer revision history, we have to start paying per user.

Google Sheets may be better for now, and it has API capabilities as well that we can integrate with our wiki when that goes live.

At some point, we can utilize (and develop) with a more open source collaborative sheets tool and build features that Airtable has into that. That's the ideal state we reach in the future :)