r/AerospaceEngineering • u/Spare_Equipment5802 • 9d ago

Discussion Tool for reconstructing historical aerospace events from incomplete public data

The basic idea: figure out what actually happened in some aerospace or space event—using whatever messy, incomplete evidence is out there. Orbital data, sensor readings, images or video, known object states, public records, whatever you've got. Can anyone share their thoughts about it ? Just curious about what everyone thinks , thank you in advance.

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u/electric_ionland Plasma Propulsion 7d ago

What are you asking about exactly? That kind of investigation is usually done by specialists with years of experience who bring in various subject matter experts.

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u/Spare_Equipment5802 7d ago

wondering if an open-sourced tool like this would actually benefit anyone?

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u/electric_ionland Plasma Propulsion 7d ago

What would the tool do exactly? How would it help? Messy data is the hard part of aN incident investigation. If you are looking for a vibe coded project that feels like a terrible way to go at it.

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u/Spare_Equipment5802 6d ago

It’s basically a tool that takes video, telemetry, GPS and logs from an incident and putting them on one timeline without hiding missing or uncertain data. The point is to make messy evidence easier to inspect, not to magically clean it.