That's very exciting Ravi! Congrats on getting your software deployed on such an important mission!
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 1:36 AM Ravi Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Artemis is a NASA program to send humans back to the Moon. As you may have > heard on the news, the first Artemis mission (Artemis I) is scheduled for > launch on Monday (Aug 29) morning. This is a very big deal for human space > flight. What you may not know is how big of a role OpenSceneGraph has > played in the Artemis mission design and operations. > > The Artemis I mission will send the Orion spacecraft on a 40 day mission > to the Moon and back. The trajectory that Orion will fly was designed using > a NASA software called Copernicus, which has 3D visualizations powered by - > you guessed it - OSG. Not only that, but Copernicus is also being used for > realtime operational support after launch, so OSG will there in the Artemis > mission control room! > > And it doesn't end there. Artemis I includes 10 tiny spacecraft, called > CubeSats, that will perform secondary missions to glean information about > how deep space affects organisms and systems during long missions, e.g. to > the Moon and Mars. One of those CubeSats is called CuSP, which will travel > 4 million kilometers away (10x the Moon's distance) and with a goal of > better understanding solar wind. The CuSP trajectory was designed by > another NASA software called GMAT, whose 3D graphics are also provided by > OSG! GMAT is also being used for operational support of CuSP, so OSG will > be all over the CuSP mission operations center too! > > Being able to visualize complex spacecraft trajectories as they are being > computed and as they are being flown is an important aspect of modern space > mission design and operations, and OSG has been an important part of that. > I wanted to thank Robert and all the other OSG devs for what they've > created and tirelessly improved over the past 20+ years. And I look forward > to eventually porting Copernicus and GMAT over to VSG! > > Thanks! > Ravi Mathur > > Director of R&D, Emergent Space Technologies Inc. > Visualization dev lead, NASA Copernicus and NASA GMAT software. > Trajectory design lead, NASA CuSP mission. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenSceneGraph Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osg-users/CAGYwD3Att0P%3DkzgDmJFvYtNegFOpXP_1ZTaYV1Fvjb9tfUxmqg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osg-users/CAGYwD3Att0P%3DkzgDmJFvYtNegFOpXP_1ZTaYV1Fvjb9tfUxmqg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSceneGraph Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osg-users/CAMcxSMtLbg9CpAk5Pq2FDXcZW8V7esV8-p2%2BU5XoNcQMFteguw%40mail.gmail.com.
