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🛰️🚀A list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index
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# Awesome Space A curated list of space-related code, APIs, data, and other resources. Please contribute! ## Table of Contents * Astronomy * Astronomy APIs * Astronomy Software * Radio Astronomy * Visualization * SDKs & Software Development Tools * Community * Learning Materials * Space Hackathons and Challenges * Working Groups * Data * Analytics & Visualization * Astronomy Data * Data Directories * Data Wrangling Tools * Earth * Extrasolar Planets * Launches * Solar System Data * Orbits * Space News * Spacecraft * Full Satellites * General Software * Ground Stations * Mission Control * Mission Design * Simulation * Spacecraft Hardware * GNSS Receivers * Radios * Star Trackers * Spacecraft Software * Legacy * Tracking & Orbit Determination ## Astronomy ### Astronomy APIs * AstroBin API - AstroBin is an image hosting website specifically targeted to astrophotographers. Its API offers a basic set of RESTful endpoints. Currently the API is read-only, and allows you to get data about images, and perform basic searches. * astrometry.net - "If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and we'll give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view." * Markarian Multiwavelength Data Center (MMDC) - Multiwavelength SEDs and light curves of blazars from archival catalogues and new Swift, NuSTAR and Fermi-LAT analyses, with a REST API, a Python client (astro-mmdc) and SSC/EIC/hadronic modeling. * Open Astronomy Catalog API - The Open Astronomy Catalog API (OACAPI) offers a lightweight, simple way to access data available via the Open Astronomy Catalogs (e.g. the Open Supernova, Tidal Disruption, Kilonova, and Fast Stars Catalogs). * SpaceXDB-Api - SpaceXDB is a website containing SpaceX launch information and telemetry. ### Astronomy Software #### Radio Astronomy * VIRGO - An open-source Spectrometer for Radio Astronomy #### Visualization * 100,000 Stars - 100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood showing the location of 119,617 nearby stars. * ANISE - ANISE provides a toolkit and files for Attitude, Navigation, Instrument, Spacecraft, and Ephemeris data. It's a modern replacement of the NAIF SPICE toolkit. * Celestia - Free real-time 3D visualization of space. (See also Celestia Motherlode for many add-ons.) * Cesium.js - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps * Cosmic Timeline - Interactive journey through the history of the universe, from the Planck epoch to today, with the physical values at each instant computed from the Planck 2018 cosmological model. * Gaia Sky - Real-time, 3D, astronomy visualization software developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission. Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. * Harmony of the Spheres - Newtonian gravity and space simulator that runs in your browser * KStars - KStars