
FSF has a listing of software free and non-free software licenses here. OSI maintains a list of software they have approved here. Software included here should meet the Open Source Definition of the Open Source Iniative (OSI) and the Free Software Definition of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) (where free means freedom).

9 Communications and Ground Station Software.6 Numerical Programming Languages and Visualization Software.

5 Structural analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software and Finite Element Modeling (FEA).Please help this project and the sustainable development engineering community as a whole by expanding the material available here.

While the focus of this project is on tools that are relevant to sustainable development applications there is significant overlap with many other engineering disciplines, as such a significant number of the tools we describe will be relevant outside of the appropriate technology arena. Where needs exist to either create new tools or enhance existing tools, we will aim to gather input regarding what functionality is desired and (when possible) point towards relevant commercial tools that could serve as models.

We aim to both provide information on existing tools and identify areas in which new tools would be of use so as to encourage the development of such tools.įor tools that are available, our goal is to provide reviews regarding the usefulness of each tool for particular applications, guides on how to most effectively use the tools for various types of efforts related to space system development, and descriptions of how the tools can be used together. This list was originally held at DevelopSpace project to aid the space systems development.īy providing access to relevant, open source engineering software tools, using input provided by both Appropedia contributors and the wider OSAT engineering community.
