InterestingLinks

This page provides links to external sites of interest for the DevelopSpace concept. A listing of links to open source software tools for engineering are also provided as part of the DevelopSpace Open Source Engineering Tools project.

Open Source Space Activities

• CSTART - An open source, international space agency currently working on a sounding rocket and, longer term, a series of manned missions culminating in moon landings.
• The OpenLuna Foundation - A group planning a series of manned and unmanned moon mission.
• SEDSAT-2 - A international, collaboratively developed cubesat. (SEDS Wiki) (Protoforge Project)
• AMSAT Eagle Satellite Wiki Documentation (FDL) (AMSAT has been developing spacecraft for the amateur radio community since the early 1960s)
• Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer (GPL)
• CosmosCode - A NASA Ames open source software initiative, part of NASA Ames CoLab
• The Open Source Spacecraft Project (FDL) - www.OpenSourceSpacecraft.org
• OpenFlightLinux Project
• Lunarpedia (Public Domain)
• Marspedia (Public Domain)
• Also see our Open Source Engineering Tools listing.
• openvirgle ([1])

Articles Related to Open Source and Space

• Open Source Software and its Role in Space Exploration (Presentation (PDF), Article) by D.J. Byrne
• Software of Space Exploration by David Boswell
• Open Source Satellite Control
• Building an Open Source Space Program
• Open source lives on Mars with rover mission extension

• A Review of Licensing and Collaborative Development with Special Attention to the Design of Self-Replicating Space Habitat Systems

Open Source Beyond Software

These sites may have relevant insights and inspiration for activities here:

• Open source being applied in specific domains
  • http://openwetware.org/
  • http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org (need to register to see full set of projects)
  • Three related sites: http://www.epower-propulsion.com/, http://www.efluids.com/, and http://www.emicronano.com/ (some aspects of the content of these is directly relevant to DevelopSpace)
  • http://imechanica.org
  • Open source aerogel
  • Wikipedia list of open source hardware projects
  • A variety of open source rapid prototyping / 3D printers (might be something you'd want in your Mars outpost...):
    • MakerBot
    • RepRap
    • Fab@Home

The New Science of Sharing a Business Week article on open source in science.

Additional Links

NASA Software Distribution Policy

• http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayAll.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR_2210_001A_&page_name=all

Random Open Source links

• Cooking pot markets: an economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet
• P2P foundation studies the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society