SmallSat testing and operations

• OpenSatKit for SmallSats: https://opensatkit.github.io/menu/about.html
• Core Flight System (cFS): https://cfs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• 42 (spacecraft attitude control system analysis and design): https://github.com/ericstoneking/42
• Ball Aerospace Cosmos: https://cosmosrb.com/

Remote Sensing (Ocean Color) Data Processing Software

• SeaDas: https://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Ocean Virtual Laboratory: https://ovl.oceandatalab.com/ (Online)
• Seascope: https://seascope.oceandatalab.com
• SNAP: http://step.esa.int/main/toolboxes/snap/

PCB development

Altium Designer. We have site license (Cybernetics, Electronic Systems, Computer Science)

Mission simulation tools

NEPTUS ...

AGI Systems Toolkit (STK)

We have 5 floating licenses for the full version. To obtain a license, you must:

1. Register at  agi.com and download the software
2. Install
3. Download and double-click on the attached license file

Students/PhDs from MASSIVE have priority for this, but Orbit may also use this license. Please close the program when not in use, in order to not block others from using it.

Read the license terms, do not violate them!

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Mission Operations

• Open Mission Control Technologies (OpenMCT): https://nasa.github.io/openmct/
  • Used on MARCO and JASON-3 missions
  • Health monitoring & science instrument readout
  • Mission planning and time scheduling
  • Camera interface possible

NASA Ames Multi-Mission Operations Center

• MMOC-Overview-PESS2-180619.pptx
• A Flexible Control Center Architecture-v5.pdf

Network emulation tools

SINet/CAMOS Network Emulator with support for 6LoWPAN (based on Docker and Imunes)

Balloon Flight

Balloon flight path prediction (winds): http://predict.habhub.org/

GIT and stuff

Some of our design documents are on bitbucket. https://bitbucket.org/ntnusmallsat/design-documents/overview

Helpful sites:

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/learn-git-with-bitbucket-cloud

http://folk.ntnu.no/rogerbi/git-tutorial/

GitKraken - GIT GUI to help you Git good!