LXer: NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon

LXer · 12-13-2007, 10:51 PM

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The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will send four astronauts back to the moon sometime in the next 12 years will be built by Boeing, NASA announced today—but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts. The avionics unit will provide guidance, navigation and control for the launch rocket, which will carry the Orion crew vehicle into Earth orbit.

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mjolnir · 02-11-2008, 12:33 PM

NASA, JPL, and others have released: CLARAty, the Coupled Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy. The first release of its software, version 0.10-beta, is now available publicly at http://claraty.jpl.nasa.gov.

Open source software modules for robotics design.