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NASA releases free software for the public: Here's why you need to download

NASA is offering the public free downloads of its software products spanning 15 categories!

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US space agency NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalogue, absolutely free of cost for the public, without any royalty or copyright fees as well. This would be the third time that NASA has released such a compilation and contains a lot of information about space travel, rocket launches, and other technical guides.

Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) stated, “The software catalog is our way of supporting the innovation economy by granting access to tools used by today’s top aerospace professionals to entrepreneurs, small businesses, academia, and industry. Access to these software codes has the potential to generate tangible benefits that create American jobs, earn revenue and save lives.”


The software is organized into 15 categories, which include software for data processing/storage, business systems, operations, propulsion, and aeronautics. The new NASA Software Catalogue also includes the code LEWICE, developed to help study the effects of ice on an aircraft in flight and to help create ice detection systems.

NASA published the first edition of its software catalogue in April 2014, becoming the first comprehensive listing of publicly available software to be compiled by a federal government agency - the largest creator of custom code. Since then, NASA has shared thousands of its software programmes with students, industry, individuals and other government agencies respectively.

 

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