Open Source Satellite Software

This article contains a list with gratis but not necessarily open source satellite navigation or gps software for a range of devices pc laptop tablet pc mobile phone handheld pc pocket pc palm some of the free software mentioned here does not have detailed maps or maps at all or the ability to follow streets or type in street names no geocoding.

Open source satellite software.

Successful deployment of upsat. Features more geared. For red hat satellite version 5 the satellite application was implemented by a toolset named project spacewalk. Usgs earth explorer is a world class source for free satellite imagery.

A qb50 cubesat by libre space foundation university of patras. Tracking programs shareware or open source. Previsat is a cross platform open source satellite tracking software available for windows linux and macos x. Satellite related software.

We are proud to have had an influence on their satnogs project which is an open source ground station and network optimized for modularity and built using affordable tools and resources. Red hat announced in june 2008 project spacewalk was to be made open source under the gplv2 license. Some software is available from amsat other software is available from the vendor site. Upsat the first open source hardware and software satellite was released in orbit by nanoracks deployer from the international space.

The open source satellite programme making space more accessible through the development of an open source microsatellite platform and community. Eleftherios kosmas 2017 05 19 2017 05 20 3 comments. Spacewalk is an open source linux systems management solution. No matter where you live you need to look at the usgs earth explorer.

The map tiles for the entire planet can be supplied in geopackage or mbtiles archive with a size of approximately 200 gbytes. Enhancing the capabilities of small satellite solutions to address an ever increasing range of applications and services. This software helps to track a number of satellites mentioned in the list. Stimulating the responsible and sustainable use and exploitation of space.

Essentially satnogs provides a scalable and modular platform to communicate with satellites accessible to anyone. The original almost cloudless map is produced by our partner eox it services gmbh who did the processing of the raw global esa copernicus sentinel 2 satellite imagery collected during the summer 2016 2017 and produced the sentinel 2 cloudless map. The first open source satellite. Satellite 5 3 was the first version to be based on upstream spacewalk code.

Spacewalk is the upstream community project from which the red hat satellite product is derived.