Welcome To The Dwarf Planet Project!
A place for Open Source Software for Tools for Space Research
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Project Description

The Dwarf Planet Project is a combined effort of software and space engineers to create open source tools valuable for research and space engineering. Currently we are able to showcase two top-level projects. One project focuses on the creation of an open source software tool for the design of Spacecrafts and Space Missions. The other aims for a simple deployable version of the server component of the Zotero Reference Management tool.

Top Level Projects

Space Design Tool (SDT)

Currently most tools for the design of space missions, launchers and spacecrafts are expensive and proprietary or very simplified and free. The software currently only includes one module for mission analysis. A new module for the thermal design of spacecrafts is under heavy development. A detailed roadmap of the project can be found at the project website.

Installation Tool for the Zotero Server Component

Zotero is a reference management tool which is developed by the Center for History and New Media at the George Mason University, USA. It is implemented as Addon for Mozilla Firefox and as a Standalone version which can be additionally used with Google Chrome, Apple Safari. It also features an Open Source server component which allows syncing of reference data among different machines and sharing with other collaborators. Currently the Zotero project itself does not actively support the installation of the server component.

This Top-Level project aims at filling this gap by providing a simple deployable package for different host operation systems.

Our Amazing Team

Patrick Höhn

Project Manager
Software Developer

Debdipto Ghoshal

Quality Assurance

Banhi Chatterjee

Particle Radiation module for the SDT project

Abdellah Es-soudati

Evaluation of Computational Platforms

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GUI Designer for the SDT project

Contact Us

dwarfplanetproject@googlegroups.com