Copernicus

NASA’s high-fidelity trajectory design and optimization system for Earth, lunar, libration-point, and interplanetary missions.

Astropy

The community-developed core Python package for astronomy, coordinates, time, units, tables, and scientific data.

PyKEP

ESA’s open research toolbox for interplanetary trajectory design, Lambert problems, and low-thrust optimization.

ESA SNAP

ESA’s open-source desktop platform and toolboxes for processing Sentinel and other Earth-observation data.

Orfeo ToolBox

An Apache-licensed toolkit from CNES for large-scale remote-sensing image processing in C++, Python, and command-line workflows.

QGIS

A free and open-source geographic information system widely used for Earth-observation and geospatial analysis.

OpenRocket

A free, open-source, cross-platform application for model-rocket design and flight simulation.

RocketPy

An MIT-licensed Python library for high-power rocket trajectory, weather, dispersion, and six-degree-of-freedom simulation.

OpenVSP

NASA’s open-source parametric aircraft geometry tool for conceptual design and engineering analysis.

SU2

An open-source multiphysics simulation and design suite for CFD, aerodynamic analysis, and shape optimization.