F Prime
- Software
- Middleware
- Framework
F´ is a component-driven C++ framework for building flight software and other embedded applications, originally developed at JPL and aimed at small spacecraft like CubeSats.
Made by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, United States (checked on github.com/nasa (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/nasa/fprime (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 76e67d0 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE.txt (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 76e67d0 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Decomposes flight software into discrete components with well-defined interfaces.
- Provides a C++ framework with core capabilities such as message queues and threads.
- Includes modeling tools that generate code from specifications of components and connections.
- Offers a growing collection of ready-to-use components.
- Provides testing tools for unit and integration-level flight software testing.
- Installs via a bootstrapping tool and creates new projects with a single command.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 76e67d0.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- Workstation with Linux, Windows with WSL, or macOS; git; Python 3.10+; Clang or GNU C and C++ compilers. A Rust toolchain is optional, needed only for Rust-dependent components.
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 15 Oct 2026 on devel
- Latest release
- v4.4.1 (7 Oct 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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