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An interesting part of the payload is LuGRE, an experiment designed to test reception of GNSS (GPS, Galileo) signals on the moon, which would be double the maximum distance tested until now. I never imagined that geolocation systems could work outside of the earth.
If it works, we should probably rename it to UNSS
Link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY I'd like to understand if there is a way to contribute to space missions like these, or space research in general, as a "civilian" software developer. Is there perhaps a community of space enthusiasts working on domain-specific open source tools? What are some unsolved problems in this field?
Great question, and I suggest you take a look at SatNOGS! It's a community driven satellite ground station project, where you can offer your own antenna and make use of the antennas of others. At my work we host 4 groundstations and regularly make use of those offered. A large open-source project like this can always use more contributors. https://gitlab.com/librespacefoundation/satnogs There's over 600 open issues w…
An interesting part of the payload is LuGRE, an experiment designed to test reception of GNSS (GPS, Galileo) signals on the moon, which would be double the maximum distance tested until now. I never imagined that geolocation systems could work outside of the earth.
The pedant in me is curious if we would have to call it something different than geolocation. :)
First photo arrived: https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1896125390386606333 Apologies for the X link. Can someone convert?
Link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY I'd like to understand if there is a way to contribute to space missions like these, or space research in general, as a "civilian" software developer. Is there perhaps a community of space enthusiasts working on domain-specific open source tools? What are some unsolved problems in this field?
It's used by a few start ups and I'm hoping to spread the word a bit more once I get some time to clean some things up. Astrodynamics sorely lacks a great open source ecosystem. Poliastro was great but is now unmaintained.
There's Orekit (which is fantastic) but it's in Java which makes it difficult to scale across languages or stacks.
Nyx Space is excellent, and it's focused on deep space applications.
Contributing to any of these tools would be a great way to improve the open source community in astrodynamics!
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The pedant in me is curious if we would have to call it something different than geolocation. :)
but the pedant in you has no issue that navigation is used outside of the sea? I've always been annoyed when I see words like moonquake or marsquake, like earthquake is used for the planet and not for the dearth under your feet. IMHO, creating neologism for the sake of neologism creates the burden to parse them instead of adding additional clarity.
Earthquake to marsquake is going from an inclusive term to a specific term of dubious utility.
Geolocation on other worlds is a misnomer and could be replaced by a more inclusive term.
I leave as an exercise to the reader the burden and value of any such change.
Link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY I'd like to understand if there is a way to contribute to space missions like these, or space research in general, as a "civilian" software developer. Is there perhaps a community of space enthusiasts working on domain-specific open source tools? What are some unsolved problems in this field?
Link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY I'd like to understand if there is a way to contribute to space missions like these, or space research in general, as a "civilian" software developer. Is there perhaps a community of space enthusiasts working on domain-specific open source tools? What are some unsolved problems in this field?
All of the Nyx tools are I have Rust with a Python interface. We used the Python interface throughout the flight dynamics on the mission.
Congrats to the team. Disappointed there was no stream of actual touchdown or maneuvers.