LunCo: full-cycle space operations sim tool

An open-source collaborative Lunar Colony sim built for engineers and enthusiasts.

Inspired by

• Professional: AGI, Solidworks, Ansys
• (And a bit) Games: KSP, SimCity, Factorio

Free for commercial use.

PS Making Kerbal a real thing. Intended for industry applications

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NOTE: Professional content closer to the bottom. It's just a catchy image

click on the image below to watch first review on youtube

Features

• Two modes
  • Digital twin mode for engineers
  • Story mode for gamers
• Realistic space exploration engine
• User generated content: space crafts, trajectories, factories, etc.
• IPFS for CDN
• Radicle to track history of user generated content
• Precise model of a Lunar base: starting from every single bolt
• Integration with professional tools: CAD, FEA, Requirements management, MBSE, etc
• Play with friends on your own servers: federated game servers connected via web3

Quick start

1. Install Godot 3.5

2. Install wget if you do not have it

3. Git LFS installation

   You can skip this section if git lfs is installed

   1. Install git lfs: a. MacOS:

      brew install git-lfs

      b. Other os check git lfs

   2. Activate it (need only once on machine):

      git lfs install

4. Make sure that it's in PATH, e.g. you can start it from terminal using below command:

   godot

5. Clone this repo in terminal

   git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:LunCoSim/lunco-sim.git

6. Change directory

   cd lunco-sim

7. Install Install Godot Package Manager guide and all dependencies

   ./gpm_install.sh

8. Run project by clicking on "project.godot" in "game" folder or

   godot game/project.godot

9. If you start it for the first time wait till it imports all the dependencies.

10. Close Godot. DO NOT SAVE THE PROJECT

11. Open project again

12. Run the game

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1. Twitter
2. itch.io
3. Discord
4. Youtube
5. Notion
6. Google Drive
7. Reddit
8. More information

What to expect in professional mode

1. Database of materials (based on db like MAPTIS)
2. Database of components
3. Follow engineering procedures: PDR, CDR, Testing, Integration, Flight, Mission Operation
4. From first unmanned missions to sustainable human colony on the Moon
5. Keep track of your budgets: money, mass, power, data.
6. Thermal, power, communications management
7. Presize interface control description: physical, mechanical, power, data, logical, thermal
8. Supply chain
9. Logistics

What to expect in game mode

1. Supply chain management as in Factorio
2. Robot & rocket control as in KSP
3. City management as in SimCity
4. Economics
5. Realistic technologies, physics and enviroment. E.g. you have to extract ~30-50 of different raw resources to build a satellite like Aluminum, Copper.
6. Hardware in the loop: integration with real hardware. Linux Kernel drivers integrated with sim showing sim date e.g. serial devices, PID controllers, etc.

Links

Related repositories

• Development Guide
• Terminology
• References
• Space Jargon Cheatsheet
• Raw assets
• Content
• Matrix

Like-minded projects

1. Moonwards – opensource Lunar City in Godot, lot of assets under MIT
2. iVoyager – a development platform for creating games and educational apps in a realistic solar system, Godot, Apache 2.0
3. Extraterrestrial Logistics And Space Craft Analogs
4. cadCAD – simulation https://cadcad.org

References

PUG – Payload User Guide

1. Falcon 9 PUG
2. Astrobotic's Peregrine PUG
3. Astrobotic's Cube Rover PUG
4. Intuitive Machines
5. iSpace PUG
6. Masten PUG
7. Startship PUG(TBD by SpaceX)
8. FireFly PUG
9. Virgin

Standards

1. NASA-STD-6016 Standard Materials and Processes Requirements for Spacecraft
2. NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Opensource spacecrafts

1. deathstarinspace
2. JPL Open Source Rover Project
3. Sawppy the Rover
4. ESA ExoMy

Similar games

1. Kerbal Space Program
2. Road to Mars
3. !Mars
4. Starbase Simulator
5. Spaceport-X
6. Space Simulator
7. spaceflight-simulator
8. OpenRocket
9. Mars Horizon
10. Surviving Mars
11. Children of a Dead Earth
12. SpaceEngine
13. Universe Sandbox
14. Simple Rockets 2
15. Planet Base
16. playfarsite

Professional SW

CAD

1. Solidworks
2. FreeCAD
3. Fusion360

Thermal

1. Thermal desktop
2. FreeCAD module

Structural

1. Inventor
2. Ansys

Orbital dynamics

1. GMAT

Requirements management and systems engineering

1. IBM Doors
2. JAMA

MBSE

1. Arcadia
2. Innoslate

Robotic simulations

1. ROS / Gazebo
2. WeBots
3. MatLab/Simulink

Flight frameworks

1. core Flight System (cFS)
2. FPrime
3. ArduPilot

Mission Control

1. OpenMCT
2. YAMCS

Physics simulation

1. mujoco
2. DART

Databases

1. MAPTIS

Systems engineering

1. TLA+ – TLA+ is a high-level language for modeling programs and systems – especially concurrent and distributed ones.
2. SysML
3. Petri net

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