MIMisterBiggs·Jan 7, 2025
This is really cool, does anyone know how it compares to NASA Trick? https://github.com/nasa/trick
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Trick Simulation Environment. Trick provides a common set of simulation capabilities and utilities to build simulations automatically.
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Trick Simulation Environment. Trick provides a common set of simulation capabilities and utilities to build simulations automatically.
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3 sourcesAerospace specific software that goes to space or code that just happens to go to space as part of bigger projects?
Here are a couple of the former:
RTEMS https://www.rtems.org/
Core Flight System (cFS) https://github.com/nasa/cFS
NASA has a lot of open source projects including a bunch that don't "go to space" but are used in space related projects (check each project for contributor guidelines):
https://github.com/nasa/openmct - web based mission control software
https://github.com/nasa/trick - simulation for for all phases of space vehicle development
You should check out their github organization for all available projects (https://github.com/nasa).
Also, European things as well such as the ESA's github organization: https://github.com/esa, and Germany's DLR: https://github.com/DLR-SC.
Another good group to check out is TU Delft: http
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s://github.com/tudelft, https://github.com/tudelft-iv and others.
Not to mention a bunch of open source CFD projects on github that are widely used and other similar tools. Again, not strictly software that goes to space, but you will find more of that too if you search for projects related to those mentioned above.
Not as fancy as the other ones but Nasa has a toolbox called trick[1]. This is completely numerical based and allows you to do all the necessary numerical calculations easily.
[1] https://github.com/nasa/trick
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