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Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

#11

Just minutes ago, I got out of a design meeting for rocket engine test mission control software. Shame our deadline is too tight to actually use the NASA package. Hopefully next time.

Curious what you ended up deciding on? Building something in-house? Another proprietary tool?

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, if NASA is working with USDS, then the playbook is Play 13: "Default to Open". Not sure if they are but could be likely! > When appropriate, publish source code of projects or components online source: https://playbook.cio.gov/#play13

I think this is big in NASA culture - I mean they built half of openstack IIRC. So I am not surprised it's getting released - I am surprised that, after a minutes thought, this is a big, open field. I mean prometheus/ graphite grafana - hell even RRD (?) have been around for years. But that's all plumbing, the porcelain is what's missing - to have a singular platform that it just gives you a real time view of what's…

Honestly having dashboards is just a good idea in general, impressing execs aside.

Graphs are a really really good way of getting an accurate gut feeling about what's going on. Take GME for example, what happened? Before you start talking about a short squeeze just get a graph of the share price out.

If I dump a CSV file in your inbox pre-coffee or whatever, you might blank, but if we have a graph of "Profit per widget" on the wall (metaphorical or literal) it's obvious if something's just broken.

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Would be nice to have a comparison with existing alternatives, specially Grafana and Kibana. The first win is a cooler sounding name and backer credentials.

Agreed. From what I gathered when I looked at it a while back two points are: This expects you more to provide your own data sources vs Grafana having a bunch of ready-made ones, and this is a bit easier to customize with custom elements etc, but it would be great to get information from someone with actual experience with it.

Re: Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA

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Just minutes ago, I got out of a design meeting for rocket engine test mission control software. Shame our deadline is too tight to actually use the NASA package. Hopefully next time.

Curious what you ended up deciding on? Building something in-house? Another proprietary tool?

I'm mostly a rocket guy. The control interface was sourced to a third party group with experience doing this sort of work. Since it's specific to this particular application, it's proprietary.
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