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NASA Releases 2017-2018 Catalog of Software For Free (nasa.gov)

Posted by BeauHD on from the free-for-all dept.

mspohr writes: Eureka Magazine has a story about the latest NASA 2017-2018 software catalog. From the report: "NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalogue free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright fees. This third edition of the publication has contributions from all the agency's centers on data processing/storage, business systems, operations, propulsion and aeronautics. It includes many of the tools NASA uses to explore space and broaden our understanding of the universe. 'The software catalogue is our way of supporting the innovation economy by granting access to tools used by today's top aerospace professionals to entrepreneurs, small businesses, academia and industry,' said Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington. 'Access to these software codes has the potential to generate tangible benefits that create jobs, earn revenue and save lives.'" Amazing amount of quality software... it IS rocket science. Further reading (and digesting): TechCrunch

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  1. Easy link by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can check out what is publicly/globally available on github: https://github.com/nasa

    On their main software page, there is a LOT of stuff that is by request only but github is all the easy to get stuff.

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  2. Re:'Scuze me? by Rei · · Score: 3, Informative

    The thing is, this is already default for NASA. NASA is far more open than ESA. They public domain everything they can, and are much more open about releasing raw data, sooner. ESA is the one that really needs to get past its closed culture.

    I'm not quite getting the point of this "release", since I use a number of pieces of NASA software and have always been able to get what I need. I guess they're just taking down the request forms or something? The real problem IMHO has never been "getting it", it's been "getting it to work". They make some very neat things, but they have such small user bases that they're not well refined, and getting them to work on your platform or finding quality documentation can be a pain.

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  3. 3d models by Gibgezr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their collection of 3D models is nice: https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3...