The Libre Space Foundation’s mission is to promote, advance and develop free and open-source technologies and knowledge for space, by designing, and developing space projects from ground station equipment to global monitoring networks and satellite missions and making all of the technologies involved publicly available. The SIDLOC project is no exception, with vast amounts of information about it available in open-source repositories.

“This is one of the basic principles that fuels our vision – making space available to all humanity,” explains Pierros Papadeas, Libre Space Foundation's Executive Director, “So, all Libre Space Foundation projects are open-source and strictly follow open-development methodologies. We believe this will increase SIDLOC’s positive impact, which is why the hardware we integrate into the Ariane 6 upper stage is both open-source software and open-hardware licensed”.

SIDLOC’s impact, once it is put to use, should be instant, enhancing safety in space as soon as it is implemented. More and more of humankind's infrastructure – scientific, Earth observing and communications – is now space-based. With increasing space activity in both the public and private realms, that space is getting crowded.