[HN Gopher] NASA's Software Catalog offers hundreds of new softw...
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NASA's Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs
for free
Author : taubek
Score : 98 points
Date : 2023-08-12 14:32 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (software.nasa.gov)
(TXT) w3m dump (software.nasa.gov)
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| There is something here that I cannot quite put my finger on. I
| am going to guess there is a lot of tiny little things - for
| example :
|
| >>> This tool is a collection of macros that work with Microsoft
| Word to export Word comments into a pre-formatted Excel
| spreadsheet, which is used to disposition comments
|
| Considering NASA also released was it openshift and a mission
| control suite this ranges from the sublime to ridiculous.
|
| But it does suggest something valuable - putting your good ideas
| into a big pot of open source means more code reuse and much
| better focus on small problems that bother just your organisation
|
| i think it's worth trying at work
| ghaff wrote:
| OpenStack is what partly came out of NASA. OpenShift went
| through a few iterations starting with basically a Heroku
| competitor (Makara) that Red Hat bought and has been a
| Kubernetes-based container platform for a while now.
|
| As I recall, there was some discussion around potential
| OpenStack confusion with the nomenclature but, originally,
| OpenShift was named around an automotive branding theme.
| mthoms wrote:
| Does anyone have experience requesting software using the
| processes described on that page? I'd be really interested in
| learning from the software used to generate full-disk GeoColor
| imagery from GOES satellites as seen here [0] and described here
| [1]. Unfortunately that software is not yet released.
|
| [0] https://rammb-
| slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-16&sec=ful...
|
| [1]
| https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/documents/QuickGuide_C...
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| Clicked on a random one to be greeted by this message:
|
| > This software is only available for use by federal employees
| and contractors to the federal government working on projects
| where this tool would be applicable.
|
| Not exactly free for all
| patrickwalton wrote:
| There are some that are free to most people, but not all are.
|
| The satellite industry very commonly uses NASA Debris Assessment
| Software to prove to the FCC that they won't create space debris.
| omoikane wrote:
| There are quite a few that are free for all, but most of them
| come with some restrictions. I tried to get a count of them[1]
| and got these numbers:
|
| General Public Release - 132
|
| U.S. Release Only - 210
|
| U.S. Government Purpose Release - 139
|
| U.S. and Foreign Release - 38
|
| [1] These were counted by looking for strings in the PDF catalog.
| There are definitely some duplicates. wget https
| ://software.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/NASA_Software_Catalog_20
| 23-24.pdf gs -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o a.txt
| NASA_Software_Catalog_2023-24.pdf grep -F "General Public
| Release" a.txt | wc -l grep -F "U.S. Release Only" a.txt |
| wc -l grep -F "U.S. Government Purpose Release" a.txt | wc
| -l grep -F "U.S. and Foreign Release" a.txt | wc -l
| JorgeGT wrote:
| Yes, this is no-cost but not necessarily open source. NASA open
| source software can be found at: https://code.nasa.gov/
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| Technically all of them come with restrictions, because if Nasa
| released them that software is still subject to the US's "we
| wrote this so we can sue you, not to actually prevent it"
| export bans on software to countries it doesn't like.
|
| For example, none of these programs may be made available to
| Iranians, even if they were to aid somehow in fighting the
| Iranian government.
| zgluck wrote:
| Found this one while browsing the catalog. Cool.
|
| https://github.com/nasa/astrobee
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-1j3sXTqA
|
| _Three NASA Astrobee free-flying robots have been operating
| inside the International Space Station (ISS) since 2019. This
| astrobee repository contains source code for the Astrobee Robot
| Software, consisting of the flight software that runs onboard the
| Astrobee robots, a software simulator, and supporting tools,
| primarily written in C++._
| nytesky wrote:
| So the first generation TARS
|
| https://interstellarfilm.fandom.com/wiki/TARS
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