cFS vs Open MCT

cFS

The Core Flight System (cFS) (by nasa)

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Open MCT

A web based mission control framework. (by nasa)

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cFS		Open MCT
	Project
8	Mentions	27
684	Stars	11,811
3.4%	Growth	5.0%
7.4	Activity	9.5
12 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
CMake	Language	JavaScript
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cFS

Posts with mentions or reviews of cFS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.

NASA CoreFlight System (CFS)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023
Examples of excellently-written projects.
4 projects | /r/embedded | 24 Mar 2023
[ANN] NASA's Ogma -- now with FPrime support
7 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Mar 2023

[4] https://github.com/nasa/cFS
C programming jobs?
1 project | /r/C_Programming | 10 Jan 2023

I definitely recommend looking at https://github.com/nasa/cFS for some great pure C coding.
Resources for Space sector embedded programming
6 projects | /r/embedded | 30 Jun 2022

Nowadays there's a trend towards openness and reusability. There's frameworks like the NASA Core Flight System (cFS) and the NASA JPL F Prime framework. There's also workshops where all of us flight software engineers get together and discuss new research, trends etc: https://www.youtube.com/c/FlightSoftwareWorkshop
Ask HN: What open source projects go to space?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2022

Core Flight System (cFS) https://github.com/nasa/cFS
NASA has a lot of open source projects including a bunch that don't "go to space" but are used in space related projects (check each project for contributor guidelines):
https://github.com/nasa/openmct - web based mission control software
ANN: NASA's Ogma
4 projects | /r/haskell | 3 Dec 2021

Your best bet is probably to read the documentation of the project itself, as well as documentation from the associated projects FRET, Copilot (https://copilot-language.github.io/documentation.html, https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200003164), and cFS (https://github.com/nasa/cFS).

Open MCT

Posts with mentions or reviews of Open MCT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-18.

OpenMCT: A web based mission control framework
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024

Even Max Verstappen uses it (albeit indirectly):
https://github.com/nasa/openmct/discussions/6392
NASA JPL Open Source Rover That Runs ROS 2
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2023
Would you be interested in such a mod for KSP2?
2 projects | /r/KerbalSpaceProgram | 29 Apr 2023

It would be cool to have it interface with this tool from NASA
What are some open source projects that use Vue well?
15 projects | /r/vuejs | 26 Jul 2022

NASA uses it: https://github.com/nasa/openmct
Checking out mycodo and it's a win so far. r/mycodo could use some more members!
1 project | /r/aquaponics | 9 Jul 2022
[Ubuntu] How to install a newer version of Node than the one provided by apt?
5 projects | /r/node | 17 Apr 2022

and then tried to use npm to install Open MCT, but I got this error:
Do you know any large company that uses Vue.js?
2 projects | /r/Nuxt | 20 Mar 2022

NASA for open mct https://nasa.github.io/openmct/. Williams Sonoma is in the middle of migrating to Vue(interviewed to work on this)
Ask HN: What open source projects go to space?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2022

Core Flight System (cFS) https://github.com/nasa/cFS
NASA has a lot of open source projects including a bunch that don't "go to space" but are used in space related projects (check each project for contributor guidelines):
https://github.com/nasa/openmct - web based mission control software
Public satellite telemetry data?
1 project | /r/satellites | 2 Nov 2021

Just found this: https://nasa.github.io/openmct/
How does SpaceX produce its broadcast titles
2 projects | /r/SpaceXLounge | 12 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cFS and Open MCT you can also consider the following projects:

fprime - F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework

yamcs - A framework for mission control

copilot - A stream-based runtime-verification framework for generating hard real-time C code.

SurveyJS - Free Open-Source JavaScript form builder library with integration for React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, and Knockout that lets you load and run multiple web forms, or build your own self-hosted form management system, retaining all sensitive data on your servers. You have total freedom of choice as to the backend, because any server + database combination is fully compatible.

luos_engine - Open-source and real-time orchestrator for cyber-physical-systems, to easily design, test and deploy embedded applications and digital twins.

Logical Or Not

kubos - An open source platform for satellites

Autotrack - Automatic and enhanced Google Analytics tracking for common user interactions on the web.

ogma

platform.js - A platform detection library.

fret - A framework for the elicitation, specification, formalization and understanding of requirements.

InversifyJS - A powerful and lightweight inversion of control container for JavaScript & Node.js apps powered by TypeScript.