Awesome Space Hackers

A curated list of aerospace/space related data and code resources for a community of independent hackers dedicated to furthering humanity's knowledge of the universe through open collaboration.

Contents

• Data Sources
• Open Source Code
• APIs
• Data Formats
• Programming Environments
• Projects to Get Involved In
• Project Ideas
• Cool Projects
• Jobs
• Misc
• Contribute

Data Sources

Sources of public data.

• NASA Open Data
• NASA Exoplanet Archive
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) - Mapping the Universe
• NSSDC (NASA) data of 550 space spacecraft
• UFO Reports
• Every Space Launch
• The Planetary Data System
• Kepler Mission Data
• Exoplanet Encyclopedia
• Asterank is a scientific and economic database of over 600,000 asteroids.

Open Source Code

• Astrometry.net -- automatic recognition of astronomical images

APIs

• Astronomy.net API for Astronomical Images

Data Formats

• FITS

Programming Environments

• MATLAB
• Engineering Tools Used at NASA

Projects to Get Involved In

• SatNOGS is an open source ground station and network, optimized for modularity, built from readily available and affordable tools and resources.
• Astrokit - help modify the Asterank engine to be a better general-purpose framework for 3D space visualizations

Project Ideas

• Open NASA: Featuring what you and your fellow Earthlings have done with Open Data through NASA Challenges.

Cool Projects

• Stuff in Space is a realtime 3D map of objects in Earth orbit, visualized using WebGL.

Jobs

Ready to turn that sidework into your fulltime job? Try applying to some of the places below!

• Blue Origin
• Jet Propulsion Labratory
• NASA
• Planet
• SpaceX

Misc

• Google Sky
• Google Moon
• Google Mars

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

To the extent possible under law, Kevin B. Ridgway has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.