awesome-space
github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space ↗🛰️🚀A list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index
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Astronomy
- 100,000 StarsAstronomy Software
100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood showing the location of 119,617 nearby stars.
- ANISEAstronomy Software
ANISE provides a toolkit and files for Attitude, Navigation, Instrument, Spacecraft, and Ephemeris data. It's a modern replacement of the NAIF SPICE toolkit.
- ASCL.netSDKs & Software Development Tools
A free online registry for source code of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists
- AstroBin APIAstronomy APIs
AstroBin is an image hosting website specifically targeted to astrophotographers. Its API offers a basic set of RESTful endpoints. Currently the API is read-only, and allows you to get data about images, and perform basic searches.
- AstroKitSDKs & Software Development Tools
A web-based toolset for performing lightcurve photometry
- astrometry.netSDKs & Software Development Tools
Code and an API for generating astrometric calibration meta-data
Spacecraft
- 42Simulation
Attitude and trajectory simulation of Spacecraft (NASA)
- Apollo 11 Guidance CodeSpacecraft Software
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules
- AstriaGraphTracking & Orbit Determination
Open source data and visualization of all known objects in Earth’s orbit
- Astro::Coord::ECI::TLETracking & Orbit Determination
Perl implementation of NORAD progation models
- azmthTracking & Orbit Determination
A web-based, real-time 3D satellite tracker that propagates ~15,000 active satellites via SGP4 in the browser, with pass predictions for any location, orbital data, and filtering by country and orbit type.
- BasiliskSimulation
C/C++ astrodynamics and attitude control simulation (includes Python scripting).
Community
- ActInSpaceSpace Hackathons and Challenges
A hackathon about space app, every even year, launched by the french CNES.
- NewSpace Startup Legal GuideLearning Materials
- NITARPLearning Materials
NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, gets teachers & students involved in authentic astronomical research.
- Open Source SatelliteWorking Groups
Ecosystem for sharing ideas and creating a "highly capable, flexible and affordable open source microsatellite platform." Founded by "a team of international space experts" dedicated to open source.
- RDFvocabLearning Materials
A collection of linked data ontologies (semantically linked representations) that describe astronomical and space engineering concepts. Can be used to link popular data sets like
- Resources and references on the topic of space explorationLearning Materials
StackExchange list of books, manuals, courses, and more.
Data
- api.nasa.govData Directories
NASA's API portal
- AsterankSolar System Data
Asterank is a scientific and economic database of over 600,000 asteroids.
- astorbDBSolar System Data
A database of orbital elements and observed physical properties (when available) for all known minor planets in the Solar System.
- BhuvanEarth
ISRO's Geoportal
- Canadian Astronomy Data CentreAstronomy Data
CADC is a Science Platform for data-intensive astronomy with many astronomy data products.
- CelestrakSolar System Data
Celestrak is the world's oldest source for orbital element sets (and related software and educational materials).
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