NASA Software Catalog Puts Agency Solutions at Innovators’ Fingertips
The latest NASA open software catalog, published on Wednesday, offers more than 1,200 downloadable codes developed by agency engineers that could allow faster solutions to boost the space economy and stimulate American ingenuity. The catalog is part of NASA’s efforts to place advanced technologies, including agency software, in the hands of businesses, researchers and entrepreneurs to promote economic growth and innovation.
Agency developers will provide more information on the software catalog, the only benchmark of its kind to the federal government, during the NASA summer software webinaries from Tuesday, July 22.
“NASA has mass of talented experts creating software to automate agency missions,” said Dan Lockney, program director, technology transfer to NASA headquarters in Washington. “The resulting efficiency benefits humanity and its public value exponentially increases when the agency gives access to these software for companies, allowing them to save time and money, improve commercial offers and create their activities.”
The four webinaries accompanying the NASA software catalog of this year present developers of popular programs for mission planning, systems design, propulsion analysis, etc., each composed of a presentation followed by a live session on questions and answers.
The programs offered in the NASA 2025-2026 software catalog are grouped into 15 categories which can be useful for organizations working with spacecrafts and planes. For example, the vehicle management category includes a satellite constellation design tool and a software library to minimize public security risks around consumable launch vehicles. The aeronautical section includes several programs widely used by the industry to create, modify and analyze aircraft conceptions.
Although categories have specific themes, codes are supposed to be useful for various innovators. Companies can use aircraft programs that NASA has written to the design of cars, trucks and countless other products. The section of commercial systems and project management of the catalog includes software to estimate the costs of the project, the construction and evaluation of complex hours and the discovery of the deep causes of accidents. Other popular programs support 3D rendering for simulation and virtual reality, provides hyper-enclosure to GPS monitoring and analyzing architectures of the electrical energy system.
NASA published its first software catalog over ten years ago in 2013, and since then, the annual rate of software downloads from the agency climbed up to 5,722 downloads in a single year.
The software catalog is a product of the NASA technology transfer program, managed by the agency’s spatial technology mission management. NASA regularly makes improvements to the website of the software catalog, ensuring that the process is fast and easy. Access restrictions apply to certain software that may be limited to use by American citizens or for the end of the US government only.
See and find out more about the NASA software catalog by visiting:
https://software.nasa.gov
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Jasmine Hopkins
Headquarters, Washington
321-432-4624
jasmine.s.hopkins@nasa.gov
