GitScience

A list of science- and engineering related repositories on GitHub and in neighboring counties

Contents

Ocean

• Acoustics (underwater)
• Oceanography in general

Earth

• Seismology

Air

• Meteorology

Space

• Orbital mechanics
• Astronomy

Technology

• Radio
• Optics
• Nuclear technology
• Chemistry

Acoustics (underwater)

• Acoustic Toolbox MatLab, Fortran
  • ... ACT - GUI for the Acoustic Toolbox
• cTraceo Does not require MatLab

Oceanography (general)

• OCE for R - a smorgasbord of useful commands to process oceanographic datasets

Radio

• SPLAT!
  • ... Signal-Server
  • ... splat
• VOACAP
  • ... voacapl - a port to Linux
• ITU-R models
  • ... propagation
• QRadioPredict

Orbital mechanics

• NASA's GMAT
• SGP4 and SDP4 ported to Javascript - runs nicely on any system with a browser or with a Node.js engine.
• SPICE - many routines to use in space operations and astronomy.
  • ... in C
  • ... in Fortran
  • ... bindings for Python (PySPICE)
• Orekit
• benelsen/spacetrack SpaceTrack API - a Node.js wrapper for SpaceTrack (USSTRATCOM) TLE API.
• benelsen/orb - helper JavaScript routines for orbital mechanics problems.
• The Primary Repository for code relating to Icarus Interstellar's Project Voyager
• Trajectory optimization tool - multiple gravity assist planning code.
• virtual Apollo Guidance Computer - awesome simulation of real-life Apollo Guidance Computer by Ron Burkey.
• Basilisk (hat tip to ChrisR) a modular C/C++ astrodynamics simulation framework with Python scripting. Likely the highest fidelity attitude control simulation, algorithms used in ADCS of the upcoming EMM mission.
• smd - (hat tip to ChrisR) a mission propagator for continuous thrusting via way-point targeting. Can also be used for statistical orbital determination given range and range-rate information. Written in Go.
• poliastro (hat tip to ChrisR) a set of Python routines for astrodynamics with an emphasis on interplanetary mission design.

Seismology

• SPECFEM-3D
• SPECFEM-3D-Globe
• SPECFEM-2D
• SEM2DPACK

Meteorology

• PyAOSlib - auxiliary routines in Fortran and Python

Optics

• poppy
• Py6S - interface to 6S radiative transfer codes

Nuclear technology

• Method of characteristics - nuclear reactor physics calculations from MIT.
• Models for nuclear reactor benchmarks - another repo from the same MIT group.

Astronomy

• NTL Asteroid Data Hunter - an asteroid search program with a neat GUI
• Binary classification of RR (AB) stars
• Tkinter program to visualize lightcurves
• A code to compute the abundances of chemical species in the interstellar medium - software written by Sébastien Maret.
• SunPy - Python for solar physics.

Chemistry

• GROMACS - a molecular simulation toolkit, main site here.