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When Will The Artemis Open Source Thing Begin?

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 15, 2019
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Keith’s note: So when does the whole “open source” thing begin with regard to NASA’s moon stuff?

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

4 responses to “When Will The Artemis Open Source Thing Begin?”

  1. fcrary says:
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    I suspect that won’t be exclusively on the NASA side. The proposal from industry are likely to be flagged as containing proprietary information. We’re going through this for NASA funded, scientific research and it isn’t fun. There is now a requirement to make any software developed as part of a research grant open source. But given how scientists write code and how they document it, that would be useless to anyone but the author or someone with the author holding his hand. And some of that software is the result of years of work and the basis of someone’s career. So we get idiotic things like requirements to archive new modules and subroutines while the main code is grandfathered and not open source. That’s really useful…

    • Jack says:
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      As far as I know all software for government contracts require CMMI level 3 or 4 certification. If that’s true there will be plenty documentation.

  2. spacegaucho says:
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    I would think that the propulsion systems while most likely proprietary are also ITSR restricted.

    • spacegaucho says:
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      Obviously, ITAR. If the propulsion stuff wasn’t restricted, it could be treated more like open source software with 3D printing becoming more prevalent.