The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced the release of the 2017-2018 computer software catalog and boasts of hundreds of offerings for public usage with no royalty or copyright fees. Moreover, the catalog offers software for apps, which range from turbine design to project management and is meant for users that range from entrepreneurs to aerospace engineers.
The free software release is part of the mission of the Technology Transfer program to make available the NASA technologies for commercial use and to develop technologies advancing space exploration, healthcare, manufacturing and other sectors as well. The first edition of the catalog was published in April 2014. NASA’s the first federal agency to release its patented software as open source by institutions. The free software catalog includes software, which could be used for managing project, turbine propulsion monitoring, data servers handing and processing. The end of the catalog refers to other resources of NASA, such as the Spinoff publication that lists examples of the technologies of NASA that are commercialized. Over 2,000 technologies that spun off from the research of the organization could be explored at spinoff.nasa.gov.
Segregated into fifteen categories, the catalog has an inclusion of software for data processing and data storage, operations, business systems, propulsion as well as aeronautics. Each and every one has software downloads. If one finds it difficult to browse through them all, he or she may opt to begin with NASA’s list of the twenty top requested software titles, which are included in the catalog. Each software has access code and has its availability listed, that range from open-source to restrict for use by United States institutions or government agencies. Moreover, the categories include some of the fastest-growing sectors. Also, it targets electronics, environmental sciences, data storage, global positioning, STEM awareness, manufacturing and mechanical simulation.
Continuing the mission to provide the public with limitless knowledge via numerous space programs, NASA is making its yearly software catalog downloadable by anyone. Software has been an integral component of each and every mission successes of NASA and scientific discoveries. As a matter of act, over 30 percent of all reported innovations of NASA are software. It is happy to transfer the tools to other sectors and excited of the prospect of seeing they implemented in creative and new ways. The downloads, which are available on the software website cover a huge range of interesting topics, which range from Integration and Design to Climate Simulators. Other topics that are impracticable to the public in general, include rocket science and propulsion are available in the form of an educational clip as well. To avoid getting overwhelmed with the huge array of choices, NASA even compiled a list of the top twenty titles that are most in demand or most requested. Steve Jurcyk,
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate associate administrator, explained the relevance of having access to the catalogs. The free software is a way of supporting the innovation economy through granting access to tools used by the top aerospace professionals today to entrepreneurs, the academic sector, small businesses and industry. Software codes access has the potential of generating tangible benefits, which create American jobs, save lives and earn revenue. Access to the software codes has the potential to generate tangible benefits. Those who are interested have to create and account in order to access the contents of the space agency. However, some catalogs are subject to different access restrictions levels, while others are available via open-source links that are easy to download. For those who want to build their own autonomous system, NASA has software for all systems and robotic health monitoring requirements. Of perhaps others may be curious regarding the climate, then NASA got them covered, providing every environmental science software tools that they have, which uses data from their earth-observing satellites. Also, NASA has software to meet data processing requirements. And while they are at it, NASA could also help in designing the next data as well as image processing application.
Technology transfer has been a NASA mandate ever since it was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. The act requires that the institution provide the widest appropriate and practicable information dissemination regarding its activities and results. Furthermore, it provides NASA the authority to patent inventions wherein it has title. The ‘spinoff’ term was created to describe specific technologies that are developed by NASA for its missions, which are transferred for commercial use or some other app that is beneficial. So far, NASA has documented over 1,500 spinoff success stories.
The free software release is part of the mission of the Technology Transfer program to make available the NASA technologies for commercial use and to develop technologies advancing space exploration, healthcare, manufacturing and other sectors as well. The first edition of the catalog was published in April 2014. NASA’s the first federal agency to release its patented software as open source by institutions. The free software catalog includes software, which could be used for managing project, turbine propulsion monitoring, data servers handing and processing. The end of the catalog refers to other resources of NASA, such as the Spinoff publication that lists examples of the technologies of NASA that are commercialized. Over 2,000 technologies that spun off from the research of the organization could be explored at spinoff.nasa.gov.
Segregated into fifteen categories, the catalog has an inclusion of software for data processing and data storage, operations, business systems, propulsion as well as aeronautics. Each and every one has software downloads. If one finds it difficult to browse through them all, he or she may opt to begin with NASA’s list of the twenty top requested software titles, which are included in the catalog. Each software has access code and has its availability listed, that range from open-source to restrict for use by United States institutions or government agencies. Moreover, the categories include some of the fastest-growing sectors. Also, it targets electronics, environmental sciences, data storage, global positioning, STEM awareness, manufacturing and mechanical simulation.
Continuing the mission to provide the public with limitless knowledge via numerous space programs, NASA is making its yearly software catalog downloadable by anyone. Software has been an integral component of each and every mission successes of NASA and scientific discoveries. As a matter of act, over 30 percent of all reported innovations of NASA are software. It is happy to transfer the tools to other sectors and excited of the prospect of seeing they implemented in creative and new ways. The downloads, which are available on the software website cover a huge range of interesting topics, which range from Integration and Design to Climate Simulators. Other topics that are impracticable to the public in general, include rocket science and propulsion are available in the form of an educational clip as well. To avoid getting overwhelmed with the huge array of choices, NASA even compiled a list of the top twenty titles that are most in demand or most requested. Steve Jurcyk,
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate associate administrator, explained the relevance of having access to the catalogs. The free software is a way of supporting the innovation economy through granting access to tools used by the top aerospace professionals today to entrepreneurs, the academic sector, small businesses and industry. Software codes access has the potential of generating tangible benefits, which create American jobs, save lives and earn revenue. Access to the software codes has the potential to generate tangible benefits. Those who are interested have to create and account in order to access the contents of the space agency. However, some catalogs are subject to different access restrictions levels, while others are available via open-source links that are easy to download. For those who want to build their own autonomous system, NASA has software for all systems and robotic health monitoring requirements. Of perhaps others may be curious regarding the climate, then NASA got them covered, providing every environmental science software tools that they have, which uses data from their earth-observing satellites. Also, NASA has software to meet data processing requirements. And while they are at it, NASA could also help in designing the next data as well as image processing application.
Technology transfer has been a NASA mandate ever since it was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. The act requires that the institution provide the widest appropriate and practicable information dissemination regarding its activities and results. Furthermore, it provides NASA the authority to patent inventions wherein it has title. The ‘spinoff’ term was created to describe specific technologies that are developed by NASA for its missions, which are transferred for commercial use or some other app that is beneficial. So far, NASA has documented over 1,500 spinoff success stories.
