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NASA has released massive catalog of free and open source software 2017

NASA Releases Tons Of Free, Open Source Software, Here’s How To Get Them

You already know NASA, the space exploration arm of United States. From time to time NASA engineers write their own program for air and spacecraft design, business optimization, systems interaction and biomedical applications. Most of these programs are open source and have been made available to general public for free use.

NASA rolled out the third installment of the software.  The newly released NASA 2017-2018 software catalog comes both in hard copy and offline format. The first pilot edition of NASA’s software catalog was made available to the public in April 2014.

The software is being made available through the NASA Technology Transfer Program keeping in line with its motto fo “Bringing NASA Technology Down to Earth”. The available codes are listed in the NASA Software Catalog, now in its third edition, published this week. While much of the software is entirely in the public domain, some programs may only be released for use on a government project or are subject to export controls allowing use only by U.S. persons.

NASA says that the freely released tools will be useful for top professionals, entrepreneurs, small businesses, industry, and academia and have a potential to create jobs, save lives, and earn revenue.

The NASA catalog contains some award winning software likeTraffic Aware Planner, is an in-cockpit tool to assist pilots in requesting the most efficient route of flight taking into consideration the position and track of nearby aircraft. The second, Pegasus 5, is a computational fluid dynamics solver, which allows users to calculate the pressure and temperature of fluid flows to model system performance, such as lift and drag from an airframe in flight. Although likely not as popular as astronaut ice cream, the most requested piece of NASA software in 2016 was Schedule Test and Assessment Tool, a plug-in to Microsoft Project to automate reporting of project performance data.

The NASA catalog also contains some super software which can help ordinary computer users. Here are some of the popular tools that have been open sourced by NASA:

Worldview Satellite Imagery Browsing and Downloading Tool
Global Planetary Reference Models
CARES/LIFE
NASA Root Cause Analysis Tool
PixelLearn
Cart3D
JPL’s Stereo Vision Software Suite
Video Image Stabilization and Registration
CARES/LIFE
What’s Up at Wallops (Android and iOS)
Lossless Hyper-/Multi-Spectral Data Compression Software
Here is how you can download the free software tools released by NASA:

NASA has nicely indexed the software it is releasing to the public. Here’s the complete list of tools released by NASA.


To download any of this software, feel free to visit this link. You may find the site little unresponsive or unavailable due the rush to download the free offering from NASA, but the wait is certainly worth it.

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Suricata IDPE 2 0 3 Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine

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PacketFence v4 3 0 Free and Open Source network access control NAC solution

• Added MAC authentication support for Edge-corE 4510
• Added support for Ruckus External Captive Portal
• Support for Huawei S2700, S3700, S5700, S6700, S7700, S9700 switches
• Added support for LinkedIn and Windows Live as authentication sources
• Support for 802.1X on Juniper EX2200 and EX4200 switches
• Added support for the Netgear M series switches
• Added support to define SNAT interface to use for passthrough
• Added Nessus scan policy based on a DHCP fingerprint
• Added support to unregister a node if the username is locked or deleted in Active Directory
• Fortinet FortiGate and PaloAlto firewalls integration
• New configuration parameters in switches.conf to use mapping by VLAN and/or mapping by role

• When validating an email confirmation code, use the same portal profile initially used by to register the device
• Removed old iptables code (ipset is now always used for inline enforcement)
• MariaDB support
• Updated WebAPI method
• Use Webservices parameters from PacketFence configuration
• Use WebAPI notify from pfdhcplistener (faster)
• Improved Apache SSL configuration forbids SSLv2 use and prioritzes better ciphers
• Removed CGI-based captive portal files
• For device registration use the source used to authenticate for calculating the role and unregdate (bugid:1805)
• For device registration, we set the "NOTES" field of the node with the selected type of device (if defined)
• On status page check the portal associated to the user and authenticate on the sources included in the portal profile
• Merge pf::email_activation and pf::sms_activation to pf::activation
• Removed unused table switchlocation
• Deauthentication and firewall enforcement can now be done throught the web API
• Added support to configure high-availability from within the configurator/webadmin
• Changed the way we’re handling DNS blackholing when unregistered in inline enforcement mode (using DNAT rather than REDIRECT)
• Now handling rogue DHCP servers based both on the server IP and server MAC address

• Fixed pfdetectd not starting because of stale pid file
• Fixed SQL join with iplog in advanced search of nodes
• Fixed unreg date calculation in Catalyst captive portal
• Fixed allowed_device_types array in device registration page (bugid:1809)
• Fixed VLAN format to comply with RFC 2868
• Fixed possible double submission of the form on the billing page
• Fixed db upgrade script to avoid duplicate changes to locationlog table

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