./Open MCT
◐ DemoContributor to NASA's open-source mission control framework — a web-based platform for visualizing telemetry data from spacecraft, rovers, and ground systems.
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about this project
Open MCT (Open Mission Control Technologies) is NASA's open-source, next-generation mission control framework for visualization of data on desktop and mobile devices.
Originally developed at NASA's Ames Research Center, Open MCT is used in production for real spacecraft missions. It provides a flexible, extensible platform for building mission control displays, telemetry visualization, and data analysis tools — all running in the browser.
My contributions to the project focused on the web frontend, working within a large-scale JavaScript/Vue.js codebase with complex real-time data streaming, plugin architecture, and mission-critical reliability requirements.
What makes this interesting: contributing to software that is actually used to monitor spacecraft gives you a very different perspective on code quality, testing, and reliability. The codebase is massive (14k+ stars, 200+ contributors), and the PR review process is rigorous. It's the kind of project where your code might literally be on a screen at mission control.