Sim-Ops is software suite for running spacecraft operations simulations exercises and demonstrations. It includes a minimalist spacecraft simulator, a ground station simulator and a Monitoring and Control System (MCS). Note, that the software suite is under constant development so things change fast. The following video illustrates the MCS UI.

Repository content:

• sim-ops-lib/: Python packages to run in the background, including API and simulators.
• sim-ops-mcs/: MCS frontend interface.
• containers/: containers files and configurations.

The following scripts are required to be running:

• so-master.py: the master script managing the simulations in the background.
• so/api.py: the API required for the web interface.

Run using Docker containers, recommended, make sure to set the required content in the .env file, or by using the option --env-file, for example to use the .env.local run:

sim-ops$ docker compose --env-file .env.local build
sim-ops$ docker compose --env-file .env.local up
# mcs is available from http://localhost:8080

The default credentials for the basic authentication are:

Username: sim
Password: ops

The default password for the admin section in the MCS is admin. In case you are running behind a reverse proxy, firewall, or any similar setting you may need to update the values described in .env.local to your needs.

A Python (version 3.11 recommended) needs to be available, the list of required packages is available from sim-ops-lib/requirements.txt file.

Note A MQTT service, e.g. Eclipse Mosquitto to run the scripts from a command line, check containers/mqtt/config/mosquitto.conf for an example configuration

Once an MQTT is running and reachable and all the requirements installed, run:

# setup environment variables (required for all scripts and npm)
sim-ops$ . scripts/export-env.sh .env.local

sim-ops$ cd sim-ops-lib

# run master script
sim-ops-lib$ python so-master.py

# run api
sim-ops-lib$ uvicorn so.api:app

sim-ops$ cd sim-ops-mcs

# run mcs
sim-ops-mcs$ npm run dev
# mcs is available from http://localhost:5173

Running Python lib tests:

$ cd sim-ops-lib
sim-ops-lib$ pytest

Nuno Carvalho, Peter Stöferle, Adrian Calleja, Vladimir Zelenevskiy, Rodrigo Laurinovics, Marcin Kovalevskij, Tim Oerther, Frederik Dall'Omo and David Evans.

MCS UI theme based on HUD Vue by Sean Ngu.