I had no idea this was out there. I found a bunch of old projects out here from a program I work on in the realm of Earth Science. Things from 2002 and 2004 that have probably not been used in over 10 years (and some from the same time frame that are still in production).<p>It has been really hard for us to open source things lately - our last project took more than a year. I did find it on this page: <a href="https://github.com/nasa/earthdata-search" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nasa/earthdata-search</a>. We are still working on open sourcing a couple more of our projects.<p>We've been told one of NASA's recent goals is to significantly improve the open source process so hopefully we'll see more of the current projects become open source.
I thought the law was that all software, books, papers, etc. created by the US government was public domain. Seems odd to see licenses on this stuff.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...</a>
Woah! A web based mission control framework! <a href="https://nasa.github.io/openmct/" rel="nofollow">https://nasa.github.io/openmct/</a> Totally sweet! Let's launch some rockets from our browsers and shoot down that pesky moon once and for all
This is cheaper than NASA's COSMIC repository.[1] There, for a few thousand dollars, you can buy old NASA FORTRAN programs. Most of them do aerodynamic calculations. If you really need to do that, that's a place to go. Export-controlled; US citizens only.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/cosmic/" rel="nofollow">http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/cosmic/</a>
Good that they have ROBUS-2 code on here. The real beauty is in the hardware. Here's that project:<p><a href="http://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/spider/" rel="nofollow">http://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/spider/</a><p>NASA's research on highly-assured systems has always been superb. Java Pathfinder and their Formal Methods guidance were also useful.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Pathfinder" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Pathfinder</a><p><a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19980228002.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1998022...</a><p><a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19980227975.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1998022...</a><p><a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/staff/Kuhn/kuhn-chandramouli-butler-02.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://csrc.nist.gov/staff/Kuhn/kuhn-chandramouli-butler-02....</a><p>Those are the ones I recall off the top of my head. Glad we have new stuff to look at. Hopefully at or above that level aside from the little tools that just make our jobs easier.
Tangentially related, does anyone here use their APIs? I started playing around with their Earth API (<a href="https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#earth" rel="nofollow">https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#earth</a>) but ran into a bug that turns out to have been reported half a year ago.<p><a href="https://github.com/nasa/api-docs/issues/63" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nasa/api-docs/issues/63</a><p>I sent an e-mail to their Contact Us mailbox with no reply. I'm kind of hoping someone who works there sees this, because getting an image larger than the default size would be really cool.
Has anyone used their network simulator? I'm wondering if it's higher-level than the tools that are available in Linux. It's always useful to be able to simulate different classes of network failure without actually having a crappy network.<p><a href="https://github.com/nasa/channel-emulator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nasa/channel-emulator</a>
This could be awesome. NASA is held up as having ridiculously low bug counts (probably for their launching actual rockets software) but I would love to add this to a corpus stretching from the Linux kernel to whatever I wrote last week and seeing what metrics can be pulled out
Their link to the OpenMDAO framework seems out of date<p><a href="https://github.com/OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO</a>
Interesting that something like DTN is being hosted in SourceForge:<p>Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION) Software Distribution (DTN)
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ion-dtn/" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ion-dtn/</a><p>I'm interested in DTN but given SF's reputation in the last few years I'm not sure what to think of it :/