Mars Orbit Constellation Simulator

A fork of Ben-Kempton/SILLEO-SCNS for Mars satellite constellations.

Citation

If you use this software in a publication, please cite it as:

Text

T. Pfandzelter and D. Bermbach, Can Orbital Servers Provide Mars-Wide Edge Computing?, 1st ACM MobiCom Workshop on Satellite Networking and Computing (SatCom '23), Madrid, Spain. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. October, 2023.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{pfandzelter2023mars,
    author = "Pfandzelter, Tobias and Bermbach, David",
    title = "Can Orbital Servers Provide Mars-Wide Edge Computing?",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st ACM MobiCom Workshop on Satellite Networking and Computing",
    pages = "to appear",
    month = oct,
    year = 2023,
    publisher = "ACM",
    address = "New York, NY, USA",
    series = "SatCom '23",
    location = "Madrid, Spain",
    doi = "10.1145/3570361.3614239"
}

A preprint is available on arXiv. For a full list of publications, please see our website.

License

All code in this repository is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3, the same as the original repository. The Mars surface texture is provided by Solar System Scope under CC BY 4.0. Pointer to this resource and code for using surface textures in VTK adapted from souwang324/solarStars. Locations of Mars landing sites in site_data.txt from The Planetary Society.

Installation

This code requires Python and a desktop environment to spawn the GUI. We have tested this code with Python 3.9. Install the requirements with pip:

python3.9 pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

Run the GUI with python3 gui.py.