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.
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.
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.
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