Elements of the Open Source Space Ecosystem

The Open Source Space ecosystem is vibrant and is growing and developing rapidly

We enjoyed the atmosphere at the Open Source Cubesat Workshop in Athens, and were very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the event.

We ran a roundtable session entitled "Disrupting the space industry with Open Source Satellites: What are the challenges, and how do we address them?" . The key focus of the session was to get participants involved in generating a list of open source capabilities that are either already being used for space applications, or have the potential to be developed for space.

It was evident from the session outputs that teams are working on Open Source projects across the value chain:

• Mission design and analysis
• Software
• Flight hardware – subsystems and spacecraft
• Communications protocols
• Ground segment
• Testing
• Rocketry

Open Source Space Teams

Here's the list that we compiled from the roundtable session. We'll be making the list available in a format that allows others to access it contribute updates.
If there's a team that's missing from the list, let us know via the comments section below! 

Organisation (Click to visit website)	Organisation Logo	Primary Activities
AALTO Satellites		Cubesat Subsystems, Missions, Ground segment designs and tools
AMSAT		Designing, building, operating and funding amateur satellites
Applied Ion Systems		Cubesat Subsystems, Testing
Aristotle Space And Aeronautics		Cubesat Subsystems, Missions, Science Payloads
CNES		Flight Dynamics tools
CosmicPi		Space environment monitoring
ESA		Software Defined Radios
FossaSystems		Cubesat Subsystems, Missions, Ground receivers
GMAT		Mission analysis for missions from LEO to interplanetary
Gpredict		Satellite tracking Orbit prediction
LibreSpace		Cubesat Subsystems, spacecraft and missions
NASA		Structures and mechanisms, design and integration, data processing and handling, propulsion, electronics
Open Cansat		CanSat subsystems
OpenCores		Components: FPGAs and ASICs
Open Rocket		Rocketry
Open Source Satellite Programme		Microsatellite components, equipment, subsystems, platforms and missions
Orekit		Orbit determination and Propagation
Polaris		Autonomous satellite operations and monitoring using machine learning
Poliastro		Astrodynamics Orbital Mechanics
RISC-V		Components: processor hardware and software
SatNOGS		SatNOGS Ground Station, Network, Ground Segment As A Service Client, and crowdsourced transmitter Database
The Flame Trench		Rocketry, PocketQubes, astronomy

This is the first version of the list; are there other teams that we need to include and spotlight?
Let us know in the Comments section below.

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