orbit@home was a
BOINC-based
volunteer computing project of the
Planetary Science Institute
The Planetary Science Institute (PSI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research institute based in Tucson, Arizona, focusing on planetary science. , its director is Dr. Mark V. Sykes. PSI, along with Space Science Institute (SSI) Southwest Research ...
. It uses the "
Orbit Reconstruction,
Simulation and Analysis" framework to optimize the search strategies that are used to find
near-Earth objects.
On March 4, 2008, orbit@home completed the installation of its new
server and officially opened to new members. On April 11, orbit@home launched a
Windows version of their
client. On February 16, 2013, the project was halted due to lack of
grant funding. However, on July 23, 2013, the Orbit@home project was selected for funding by
NASA's
Near Earth Object Observation program. It was announced that orbit@home is to resume operations sometime in 2014 or 2015.
As of July 13, 2018, orbit@home is offline according to its website, and the upgrade announcement has been removed.
See also
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List of volunteer computing projects
References
External links
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Science in society
Free science software
Volunteer computing projects
Near-Earth object tracking
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