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From the article: >>libSPRITE defines engineering units as types (i.e., Meters or Radians instead of double or int). I guess experience is a harsh teacher.[1] [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_f...

I had no idea this was out there. I found a bunch of old projects out here from a program I work on in the realm of Earth Science. Things from 2002 and 2004 that have probably not been used in over 10 years (and some from the same time frame that are still in production). It has been really hard for us to open source things lately - our last project took more than a year. I did find…

This is a step forward. Earlier NASA open-source had to be released only on open channel: http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/cosmic/ This is not workable because it wasn't possible for non-NASA developers to contribute back. This one-way system resulted in other software being released piecemeal, outside the above process, e.g. http://oodt.apache.org/ Doing even this took a lot of work.

Note that there's a more reader-friendly list with support for filtering by category at https://software.nasa.gov/ . Specifically I found DATA SERVERS PROCESSING AND HANDLING especially helpful for general SWEs. Here's a list of my personal picks: - Shift: Self-Healing Independent File Transfer - BASSHFS: Bash-Accessible SSH File System: SSHFS but without fuse dependency - Ballast: Balancing Load Across Systems: load balance for SSH servers