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NASA Releases 2017-2018 Catalog of Software For Free (nasa.gov)
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
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.
Seems to me the software was already paid for by me. Or does NASA think their budget grows on a money tree in space?
I would just like to say thank you, and I hope that other government agencies worldwide contribute equally. Being born when astronauts were taking the first steps towards the moon I have always held NASA in high regard and it is fabulous that they keep impressing many decades later.
...the Autonomous Precision Landing Navigation System might come in handy. It combines camera images with elevation maps using methods “employed by cruise missiles for decades,” although you don’t hear a lot about safe landings by cruise missiles."
(From the linked article)
Attitudes make the difference between Space and Time: we want to MAX our temporal, and MIN our spatial extension.
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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I remember the first time I had to deal with satellite telemetry. While I had to write code to process the data, I used GNUPlot for visualization. Saved a ton of time. Of course there is no free software. Someone pays for it, to someone donates the time. In government we pay for it, just like we pay for everything. This is why the freedom of information act makes so much sense, and should not be ignored arbitrarily. We pay for the work, and we have a right to know if and how that work is being done.
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Yeah, NASA has always been terrible at public outreach. Anyone ever seen the NASA TV channel? Just terrible. There's no excitement in anything they make for the public, despite the fact that they're working in one of the most exciting fields out there. Contrast with what SpaceX does, where each launch is almost like a sporting event, with "newscasters" and "commentators", screaming crowds, HD footage from multiple angles, etc. That's PR. And I doubt they're spending a fortune to do so, versus what everything else costs in rocketry.
Perhaps the most exciting thing NASA does is their press conferences to announce findings (say, post-flyby preliminary results and the like). But I think only space geeks like myself can get excited about a NASA press conference.
Some parts of the US federal government are good at PR: The military is an obvious one - they work closely with TV and movie producers to get them enthusiastic and supportive. They manage it top to bottom, wanting to see whole scripts in advance to make sure that they portray the military in a good light - and if they do, they get access to locations, hardware, troops, gear, almost anything. They even require producers to have a minder.... er... I'm sorry, "technical adviser", who follows them around and (strike)makes sure they make it positive like they promised(/strike)offers "helpful advice". It's a sleek operation of mutual exploitation, where the military gets free PR and recruiting, and the movie makers get taxpayer-funded hardware, locations and manpower.
Not that NASA should go that far. But they should do a lot better than something with the quality of a late-night public access TV channel. They have amazing facilities, settings and people, and are doing exciting things. They should modernize their PR.
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Their collection of 3D models is nice: https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3...
Is there even ONE slashdotter who's going to comment on the **contents** of the catalog instead of bitching about governments and copyright issues (of which they most likely know very little)?
I'd be much more interested in reviews/ ratings of software tools for various tasks than in what NASA allegedly is or isn't keeping from the public.
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SpaceX's broadcasts started out less watchable than a 12YO's Youtube channel but within a year had become slick and entertaining. NASA TV has improved somewhat over the years but still is nowhere as entertaining as it should be. I do feel for the folks at NASA though - their public outreach program suffers from underfunding and uncertainty so it's not entirely their fault.