NASA free 2023 software catalogs

NASA’s space exploration has come roaring back from the pandemic, with
launches over the next year or so expected to send astronauts into lunar orbit
and spacecraft to explore one of Jupiter’s icy moons and an all-metal asteroid.
These follow the launch of the flagship James Webb Space Telescope and the first
flights of the Space Launch System. We proved we could change an asteroid’s
trajectory, and we’re about to bring back samples from another asteroid.
But NASA also uses space to study Earth, looking down from orbit to get the big
picture, often with sensors that can see what the human eye cannot. All of this
work, from calculating spacecraft trajectories to wringing valuable information
from mountains of satellite data, requires constant technological innovation, but
it’s not all thrusters and spectrometers. More and more, advancing technology means
writing new or improved software.
Our biannual software catalog lets us share those programs with the nation and
the world. The codes within these pages have been essential to keeping astronauts
healthy in space, landing rovers on the Red Planet, and monitoring details and trends
across this planet’s surface and atmosphere.
The 2023-2024 catalog contains more than 1,000 codes written by NASA engineers,
organized by discipline, and available free of charge. They were created to meet
the space agency’s needs but often prove useful for diverse applications. Tools for
modeling Earth’s atmosphere to plan spacecraft reentry, for example, are also useful
not only to commercial space companies but to businesses designing drones or
studying the climate. Here are a few more popular examples:
GeoCam is a geospatial system for disaster response
Data Cube Platform provides a computational infrastructure to use Earth-
observation data
Lightning Forecasting estimates an area’s total lightning flash rate density
Landslide Hazard Assessment identifies areas of moderate to high landslide hazard
EarthKit provides a framework for collaboration among researchers in Earth science
Tax dollars spent on space and aviation have always resulted in technologies that
improve everyday life here on the ground. NASA’s innovative software codes help
the private sector overcome technical challenges, generate or improve commercial
products, and get startups off the ground.
NASA software code might be just what you or your company needs. Take a look to see what NASA Has for you