Abstract Today, open source software plays a significant role in information technology and consumer electronics. Open source hardware, which is the free exchange of a product׳s design information, is gaining popularity as well. Both ideologies are motivated by trading away competition against collaboration. In this paper we suggest the application of the open source movement to space technology. In the focus of our discussion are CubeSats, considered as an ideal playground for the introduction of technological and methodological novelties. We examine the legal background of open source designs and contrast the advantages of open source products for developers and users against closed source products. We then present an open source initiative for CubeSat technologies with the intention to encourage the CubeSat community to move towards open design.

    Highlights The open source movement is becoming extremely popular in recent years. We contrast open source versus closed source design for CubeSat projects. Several open source licenses are available today. We present an open source CubeSat initiative.


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    Title :

    Toward open source CubeSat design


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 115 ; 384-392


    Publication date :

    2015-06-07


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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