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Top 22 Python Space Projects
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Mimic
We use the actual live data from the International Space Station to control a 3D-printed model that moves the solar arrays and radiators to track the real ISS in real time for STEM outreach purposes! We also host webpages which display ALL of the public ISS telemetry: (by ISS-Mimic)
Project mention: Live data from the International Space Station to control a 3D-printed model | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-23 -
Project mention: Google DeepMind team up to solve the Navier-Stokes million-dollar problem | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-25
https://github.com/dynamicslab/pysindy/issues/383#issuecomme...
OSIRIS-code can simulate laser emissions in plasma, nonlinear optics in plasma,; and supports Checkpointing and thus probably parallelization; https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=44371059
For simulations of gravity-assisted spacecraft trajectories, in n-body (vortical fluidic) gravity:
> JPL SPICE toolkit: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html
> SpiceyPy: https://github.com/AndrewAnnex/SpiceyPy
"Gravity as a fluid dynamic phenomenon in a superfluid quantum space. Fluid quantum gravity and relativity." (2017) https://hal.science/hal-01248015/ :
> [ Bernoulli, Navier-Stokes, Gross-Pitaevskii vortices in a field with curl ]
Shouldn't solving NS also solve for n-body gravity?
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SpaceXtract
Extraction and analysis of telemetry from rocket launch webcasts (from SpaceX and RocketLab)
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Project mention: Show HN: Spacelink – link budget / comm system modeling Python library | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-12
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Tutorials
Tutorials and FAQs to learn how to use the APIs provided by The Space Devs to create new projects. (by TheSpaceDevs)
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TrueColorTools
GUI application for calculating human-visible colors of celestial bodies from their photometric data
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launch-stats
Space launch statistics, charts & infographics made in Python with the Launch Library 2 API.
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Project mention: High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-04
I’ve been working on a hobby project to send a Raspberry Pi into the stratosphere (nothing really novel) but with all custom software. The entire process, hardware, and stack is documented on the GitHub [1]. Essentially all the software and major components are purchased. I’m just waiting for the spring and then start some tests with balloons, helium mixtures, and iron out any regulatory issues. If this interest you or you have any experience would love help or contributions. The launch will happen in Tennessee.
[1] https://github.com/stratopi-org/stratopi
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CosRayModifiedISO
A Python library for acquiring galactic cosmic ray spectra at Earth from the ISO model as modified by DLR. All the details and equations about this model can be found in Matthiae et al., A ready-to-use galactic cosmic ray model, Advances in Space Research 51.3 (2013): 329-338, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2012.09.022 .
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ParticleRigidityCalculationTools
A set of Python functions for processing and converting data in units of particle kinetic energy to units of particle rigidity (typically expressed in GV; gigavolts) and vice versa. This is frequently done in the field of solar system radiation physics.
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Project mention: Show HN: AstroLens – AI that watches the sky and finds what nobody catalogued | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-20
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AstroPi
Astro Pi Mission Space Lab 2024 project estimating the ISS orbital speed using Raspberry Pi images and OpenCV feature tracking.
Project mention: Estimating the speed of the ISS using computer vision (Python + OpenCV) | dev.to | 2026-03-31
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python Space discussion
Python Space related posts
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Live data from the International Space Station to control a 3D-printed model
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High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon
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Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station
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Show HN: StratoPi open source project to send a Raspberry Pi to the StratoSphere
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StratoPi: Open-source Raspberry Pi into the stratosphere with a weather balloon
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StratoPi – open-source project to send Raspberry Pi to the stratosphere
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macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Space projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | apod-api | 1,052 |
| 2 | termtrack | 543 |
| 3 | Mimic | 483 |
| 4 | SpiceyPy | 480 |
| 5 | pyspedas | 198 |
| 6 | SpaceXtract | 188 |
| 7 | nextinspace | 123 |
| 8 | spyce | 77 |
| 9 | awesome-space-security | 75 |
| 10 | spacelink | 52 |
| 11 | Tutorials | 51 |
| 12 | amateur-satellite-database | 47 |
| 13 | TrueColorTools | 37 |
| 14 | launch-stats | 26 |
| 15 | skylab | 21 |
| 16 | pyspaceweather | 17 |
| 17 | stratopi | 11 |
| 18 | bitsofpluto | 6 |
| 19 | CosRayModifiedISO | 5 |
| 20 | ParticleRigidityCalculationTools | 4 |
| 21 | astroLens | 4 |
| 22 | AstroPi | 4 |
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