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Project Asteria

Project Asteria is an Android app for exploring space-related images and events.

About Project Asteria

Project Asteria is an Android app for exploring space-related images and events. It provides a daily astronomy picture with an accompanying explanation, along with live space-themed wallpapers that use interactive backgrounds and parallax movement. A launch tracker presents upcoming rocket launches with countdowns, while a near-Earth-object view follows asteroids passing near Earth. The app combines reference material with home-screen customization and event tracking. Users can open the daily image to view its explanation, set a dynamic space background, or check upcoming launches and asteroid activity. Its data is retrieved through astronomy APIs, so access to network data is needed for current content. The description identifies Project Asteria as free, open source, and without trackers, ads, or telemetry. Project Asteria is intended for people interested in astronomy who want space imagery and event information in one mobile app. The supplied description does not specify how often the object or launch data refreshes or which launch providers are covered. Its live and daily content should therefore be understood as dependent on the external data sources used by the app.

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