š°ļøšA list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index
This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.
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.
"If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not knowāor do not trustāthen Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and we'll give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view."
The Open Astronomy Catalog API (OACAPI) offers a lightweight, simple way to access data available via the Open Astronomy Catalogs (e.g. the Open Supernova, Tidal Disruption, Kilonova, and Fast Stars Catalogs).
SpaceXDB is a website containing SpaceX launch information and telemetry.
An open-source Spectrometer for Radio Astronomy
100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood showing the location of 119,617 nearby stars.
ANISE provides a toolkit and files for Attitude, Navigation, Instrument, Spacecraft, and Ephemeris data. It's a modern replacement of the NAIF SPICE toolkit.
Free real-time 3D visualization of space. (See also Celestia Motherlode for many add-ons.)
An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps
Real-time, 3D, astronomy visualization software developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission. Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Newtonian gravity and space simulator that runs in your browser
KStars is free, open source, cross-platform astronomy software. It provides many features, including a graphical simulation of the night sky, observing planner, a sky calendar tool, an FOV editor, and more.
Low Earth Orbit Catalog Visualization.
This visualization shows the current location and communication activity of all operating landers, rovers and orbiters at Mars that transmit data to Earth via NASAās Mars Relay Network.
Immersible apps to explore the Earth and solar system
Visualization of all the asteroids in the MPC database.
A powerful numerical integration tool. "By performing n-body simulations, you can study the orbits of planets, moons, asteroids, or any object in the universe."
Open source spaceflight simulator with many addons for historical missions. Installation Instructions.
A browser-based real-time night sky map and interactive 3D rocket explorer (Saturn V, Artemis II, Falcon 9), part of a combined astronautics/aviation tracking site.
A 1:1 real-time, browser-based solar system explorer using NASA JPL ephemerides. Seamless landing from orbit to walking on the surface, ray-marched atmospheres, and coverage out to the Oort Cloud. (source)
Realistic universe simulator and planetarium. Old versions are free.
Open source planetarium for your computer
A free online registry for source code of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists
A web-based toolset for performing lightcurve photometry
Code and an API for generating astrometric calibration meta-data
Collection of software packages written in Python and designed for use in astronomy
A multi-purpose N-body integrator
Skyfield computes positions for the stars, planets, and satellites in orbit around the Earth.
An open-source library for building interactive Javascript- and WebGL-based space visualizations.
Curated research, flight demonstrations, software, tools, and guidance for autonomous spacecraft and space robots.
A guide tailored for space industry startups. It covers licensing of space activities, public-private partnerships in space, legal intricacies of launching payloads, space risk insurance, etc.
NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, gets teachers & students involved in authentic astronomical research.
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 DBPedia.
StackExchange list of books, manuals, courses, and more.
list of space-related terms and jargon
A hackathon about space app, every even year, launched by the french CNES.
NASA-led initiative organized in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, Mindgrub and SecondMuse.
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.
An interactive, all-in-one space data platform with charts and live statistics about satellites, launches and more, updated every day.
An open browser-based directory of 14,000+ spaceflight entities (satellites, launches, agencies, astronauts, landing sites, missions) paired with a CesiumJS 3D viewer. Aggregates The Space Devs, JPL Horizons, CelesTrak, Space-Track, and ESA DISCOS into a single interactive interface.
Satcat is a web application by Kayhan Space that provides search, visualizations, and orbital design tools
CADC is a Science Platform for data-intensive astronomy with many astronomy data products.
The purpose of Simbad is to provide information on astronomical objects of interest which have been studied in scientific articles.
Three-dimensional maps of the Universe
NASA's API portal
The US Federal government's open data portal page for NASA data sets. If you search by Bureaus, Organizations, or Publishers, you'll find additional space-related data sets from NASA/GSFC, NOAA, the Space Science Technology Directorate, selected universities, and more.
Continually growing catalog of publicly available NASA datasets, APIs, visualizations, and more
Search NASA's informational image and video archive
A NASA-funded site that provides astronomical data archives focused on scientific data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-IR.
Searchable database and API of 950K+ space regulatory filings from the FCC, ITU, UNOOSA, and FAA-AST, with an open-source MCP server for AI-assistant access.
NASA's federated search portal for small spacecraft parts, technologies and conference proceedings.
A data processing pipeline and web server that can dump HDF5 files from NASA's Orbital Carbon Observatory 2 mission into an SQL database.
A Python wrapper for getting space weather data from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.
ISRO's Geoportal
The Copernicus Open Access Hub provides complete, free and open access to Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-5P user products.
Portal to NASA's Earth observation data
A free GIS database of the most widely used satellite images.
Query for Earth imagery across a suite of space systems
Identify areas of tree cover loss and gain
Earth Engine's public data archive includes more than forty years of historical imagery and scientific datasets, updated and expanded daily.
Realtime stream of Earth from the ISS
Maxar releases limited open data during major crisis events.
Download any remote sensing data from any provider using a single config.
Machine learning models pretrained on remote sensing data.
Explore NOAA satellite maps and imagery in 2D and 3D.
satellite images of the coastal U.S.(discover, customize, and download authoritative land cover, imagery, and lidar data.)
Programmatic support for searching, clipping, ordering, and viewing satellite imagery on a map. Currently offers a free plan with access to low-resolution imagery worldwide.
A collection of tools, including the RemotePixel Viewer, Satellite Search tool, and Disasterwatch, for exploring and downloading satellite imagery, maintained by one hardworking volunteer.
ESA's EO Browser and Sentinel Playground offer a complete archive of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, Sentinel-5P, ESA's archive of Landsat 5, 7 and 8, global coverage of Landsat 8, Envisat Meris, MODIS, Proba-V and GIBS products in one place.
A tool that provides users the ability to query, search, and retrieve satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products from several sources
A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
A NASA app that provides the capability to interactively browse over 800 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data
A directory of imagry and data sources.
an open source database of all discovered extrasolar planets
Open Source REST API for rocket launch telemetry
A free to use API with rocket launches, astronauts, events, etc. that application developers can use. It is the successor of the original Launch Library and Space Launch Now APIs. As it is maintained by The Space Devs, news and support are provided on their Discord server.
JSON API of upcoming and past rocket launches, hand-curated in real time, with launch windows, vehicles, pads, missions, and est. dates for unscheduled launches. Free tier returns the next 5 launches.
Open Source REST API for rocket, core, capsule, pad, and launch data
Asterank is a scientific and economic database of over 600,000 asteroids.
A database of orbital elements and observed physical properties (when available) for all known minor planets in the Solar System.
Clearing house for observations of asteroids and other smaller solar system bodies
Quality 2D and 3D maps of the moon
A long-term archive of digital data products returned from NASA's planetary missions
Access surface elevation profiles, sun angles, 3D print files, and VR experiences in our solar system
Zoomable maps of 14 worlds built from open NASA, USGS, ESA and JAXA imagery, with IAU nomenclature and surface mission landing sites
Celestrak is the world's oldest source for orbital element sets (and related software and educational materials).
Generate ephemerides for solar-system bodies
Web-based services for survey and high resolution data and trajectories
A free to use API with space-related news articles that application developers can use. As it is maintained by The Space Devs, news and support are provided on their Discord server.
Quetzal-1 was a 1U CubeSat developed by an engineering team from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG). Quetzal-1 operated successfully in space for 211 days.
SUCHAI 2, 3, and PlantSat were 3U CubeSats developed at the Space and Planetary Exploration Laboratory (SPEL) of the University of Chile. This is the complete flight software and ground software used for these satellites.
has links, videos, and other resources about aerospace security.
and code.nasa.gov
FoxTelem is used by a network of ground stations to retrieve the telemetry and experiment data from the Fox Satellites.
Commercial network of satellite groundstations with simple to use Python SDK.
Ongoing effort to develop open-source software for the receipt and decoding of satellite data using software-defined radio (SDR) hardware
Open source digital broadband satellite and terrestrial radio systems, part of Open Research Institute
A global network of satellite ground stations, designed as an open source participatory project
Open network of ground stations to receive and operate LoRa satellites using cheap and versatile modules
Open source mission control and satellite test & development framework
Ames's next-generation mission control framework for visualization of data on desktop and mobile devices.
Transpiler and runtime for PLUTO (ECSS-E-ST-70-32C), the standardised spacecraft operations procedure language. Compiles procedures to readable Python; includes a CLI and a browser playground.
Open source mission control framework (works also as backend for OpenMCT).
Copernicus, a generalized spacecraft trajectory design and optimization system, is capable of solving a wide range of trajectory problems such as planet or moon centered trajectories, libration point trajectories, planet-moon transfers and tours, and all types of interplanetary and asteroid/cometā¦
Orbital launch simulator and trajectory visualisation software
A software application for space mission design, analysis, and operations.
The General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) is a space trajectory optimization and mission analysis system (NASA)
A software tool which allows for general design and optimization of missions with electric propulsion systems.
A tool to find spacecraft trajectories to planets and small-bodies
Nyx is a high fidelity astrodynamics toolkit for mission design and orbit determination in Rust and Python, used on several lunar missions.
Collection of versatile software libraries for space engineering applications (e.g., environment modeling, orbit and access computation).
Optimal Trajectories by Implicit Simulation is a general purpose 3DOF trajectory simulation and optimization software package that is focused on the optimization of aerospace vehicle trajectories and associated vehicle design parameters. (NASA)
Poliastro is an open source pure Python package dedicated to problems arising in Astrodynamics and Orbital Mechanics. Focuses on interplanetary design.
SPENVIS is ESA's SPace ENVironment Information System, a web interface to models of the space environment and its effects; including galactic cosmic rays, solar energetic particles, natural radiation belts, plasmas, gases, meteoroids and debris.
Ephemerides library used by JPL for their missions. SpiceyPy is a Python wrapper.
The Spacecraft Orbital Computations Kit is an open source tool for spacecraft mission analysis and simulation.
Simulate missions and create reports, graphs, and 3D animations (paid). From Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Attitude and trajectory simulation of Spacecraft (NASA)
C/C++ astrodynamics and attitude control simulation (includes Python scripting).
Robotics simulator often used for planetary rovers
An open-source full-cycle Lunar Colony & space operations sim tool for engineers and enthusiasts
Satellite network emulator running real Linux routing stacks (FRR with IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, and MPLS) against moving LEO topology. Each satellite is a Linux network namespace; orbital mechanics drive interface state, link latency, and ground-station handoffs.
NASA Operational Simulator for Small Satellites
Satellite constellation compute simulator with orbital mechanics, power/thermal, eclipse-aware scheduling, ISL networking, radiation, data pipeline, cost modeling, and interactive web demos.
Simulation environments and tasks for developing and validating autonomous systems in orbital and planetary robotics scenarios.
Simulate AI inference on orbital satellite constellations under space radiation. PyTorch/ONNX fault injection, TMR & distributed fault tolerance, ground station/ISL network modeling, link budget, ECSS/MIL-STD report generation, 7 hardware chip profiles. Python.
End-to-end physics simulation package, useful for simulating missions (but requires orbital dynamics models). C, C++, with Python (SWIG) interface.
Hardware designs and software for the FossaSat-1 Pocketqube satellite (GitHub)
A dataset of materials intended for spacecraft use from the Goddard Space Flight Center, the Stanford Research Institute, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
An open source cubesat developed at Oregon Small Satellite Project.
An open source hardware platform to achieve a FRAM-based radiation-tolerant microcontroller for space application. The firmware is being developed in Rust.
An Open-Source, Radiation-Tested CubeSat Framework Programmable Entirely in Python.
Open source software and hardware pocketqube satellite
Radiation test results for many components.
, CubeSatShop - Search engines for satellite parts and their datasheets
a low cost satellite emulator that runs on solar panels and batteries, transmits UHF radio telemetry, has a 3D printed frame, and can be extended by additional sensors and modules.
Vesper is a free spacecraft system design & analysis toolkit, and a spacecraft hardware library.
and libsbp (Swift binary protocol for communicating with receiver hardware)
Little Free Radio (LFR) is an open source, command, telemetry, and data radio for cubesats.
and its fork, ESA Tetra - Open source star tracker which relies more extensively on hashes for faster lookups
Open star tracker hardware with software, based on UPNanosatLab's openstartracker (which doesn't compile or have hardware)
Provides a lightweight environment to help you learn NASAās cFS and create app-based solutions for your projects. The built-in hands-on tutorials shorten the path to productivity.
NASA portable and extendable flight software framework with extensive flight heritage and a growing suite of applications and platform ports
Hardware designs and software for the FossaSat-1 Pocketqube satellite (GitHub)
F Prime (FĆĀ¹) is a component-driven framework that enables rapid development and deployment of spaceflight and other embedded software applications, originally developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
An open-source flight software framework for satellites
Open source space and Earth exploration. Defining a generic architecture of system of systems that have standardized interfaces makes it possible to combine and reuse elements for various applications
Open source Yocto based Linux distribution suitable for space applications
A software framework for nanosatellites based on the latest CCSDS standards. Developed by ESA and used in OPS-SAT mission (GitHub)
A complete Core Flight System training and application development environment that includes COSMOS and 42
A mixed-media Ethernet switch for connecting smallsat payloads
ROS 2-based framework for space robotics software, testing, and interoperability.
The SUCHAI Flight Software is a FOSS framework for developing flight and ground software for nanosatellites. It has been used in the SUCHAI-1, SUCHAI-2, SUCHAI-3 and PlantSat CubeSat missions.
NASA-AMMOS framework for onboard data-product generation and downlink prioritization, including autonomous science products and cFS integration.
Open source satellite software and hardware
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules
Open source data and visualization of all known objects in Earthās orbit
Perl implementation of NORAD progation models
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.
Open source, real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
Simulated live view from the International Space Station, propagating its position via SGP4 and rendering the ground below in real time with live weather, city lights, and aurora.
A Javascript port of the popular predict satellite tracking library.
Open-source TypeScript and WebGl app for visualizing satellites, radars, telescopes, missiles, and breakups.
Generate positions of objects from orbital parameters.
Live satellite tracking map with pass predictions for any location and naked-eye pass times for cities worldwide, a schedule of upcoming rocket launches with an orbit sketch that draws where a launch flies over in its first orbits, and Space-Track's close-approach reports. Its data is alsoā¦
Processes traditional and non-traditional measurements using a sequential filter & matched smoother to generate orbits with realistic covariance (paid). From Analytical Graphics, Inc.
TypeScript port of python-sgp4 plus additional features for working with TLEs, satellites, and sensors.
A real-time, browser-based satellite tracking and space situational awareness platform. Visualises every catalogued object in Earth orbit on an interactive 3D globe using TLE data, with constellation filtering, live re-entry forecasting, conjunction screening, and a space encyclopaedia.
Public satellite catalog fusing CelesTrak, GCAT, and Wikidata into one source-cited dataset of ~16,000 objects, with a free REST API.
An accurate and efficient core layer for space flight dynamics applications written in Java.
A modern C++ library for SGP4 orbit propagation of TLEs
PHP implementation of the SGP4 and SDP4 models for prediction, based on Gpredict
Python implementation of most recent version of the SGP4 satellite tracking algorithm
A library to make satellite propagation via TLEs possible on the web. Provides the functions necessary for SGP4/SDP4 calculations, as callable javascript. Also provides functions for coordinate transforms.
Open-source satellite conjunction assessment pipeline with SGP4 propagation, collision probability (Foster/Chan/Alfano), CDM generation, and interactive 3D CesiumJS globe. Python, MIT licensed.
All-vs-all conjunction screener inspired by and validated against CelesTrak SOCRATES. Scans the entire catalog in under 30 seconds on consumer hardware.
Programmatic access to Two-Line Elements, Orbital Mean-Elements, satellite catalog information, space debris, and more.
AI-friendly CLI aggregating public space data ā orbital elements with derived perigee/apogee/period, satellite catalog, conjunction and launch data from CelesTrak, Space-Track and Launch Library 2 ā as single JSON documents with built-in caching and upstream rate-limit protection.
Real time tracking of the International Space Station, with email push notifications for upcoming passes and a REST API for integrations. Based on Predict
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