Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

For those interested in something targeted towards more diverse systems take a look at https://cosmosrb.com/ It's a command and telemetry package for working with embedded systems, arduinos through satellites, and includes data visualization and command interfaces. It's released under AGPL by Ball Aerospace and has a following at NASA as well. It's particularly useful for dealing with small systems where you'd usually write a python script for FTDI/serial communication. You can instead just define your commands…

I think the biggest takeaway from this is diving into their research about the human consumption of a lot of information (UX, if you will). I know NASA and the Air Force spent a lot of time seeing how humans pilots digested information under stressful conditions etc., which basically gave us the modern aircraft cockpit layout (and the fairly standard arrangement of the 6 critical instruments that are used in all small aircraft today). I wonder (and hope) that this…

Live demo: https://openmct-demo.herokuapp.com/#/browse/demo:root/demo:3...