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Data Visualization Platform Helps Missions Fly
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Software designed at Ames Research Center helps mission controllers see at a glance what’s happening and when there’s a problem. The web-based platform, Open MCT, can display streaming and historical data, imagery, timelines, procedures, and other data visualizations and can be quickly configured and reconfigured. Now that it is open source and freely available, it has many users, including the Planetary Society, based in Pasedena, California, which adopted Open MCT to visualize the data coming in from LightSail 2, a spacecraft that is propelled solely by sunlight.