The engineering specification governing every project under Spacecraft Software — priorities, licensing, platform requirements, documentation, palettes, accessibility, and the §19–§26 assurance process.
Published at https://Standard.SpacecraftSoftware.org/.
There is no application source here. The standard itself is the product.
| Path | Role |
|---|---|
The_Steelbore_Standard.texi |
Source of truth — GNU Texinfo |
The_Steelbore_Standard.md |
Generated GFM companion, tracked so GitHub renders it |
CHANGELOG.md |
Hand-maintained version history (extracted from §1 at v1.37) |
CREDITS.md |
§15.3 attribution for the outside specifications §19–§26 draw on |
spacecraft.css |
HTML theme; its palette block is generated from steelbore.toml |
.info, .html, .pdf and .docx are generated and gitignored.
Do not edit the .md by hand — it is overwritten by the next build.
Build commands, the versioning policy, and the two-repo change workflow are in
AGENTS.md.
"The Steelbore Standard" is the canonical, current name. It was briefly renamed to "The Spacecraft Software Standard" at v1.7 and reinstated at v1.8; the standard's name is deliberately decoupled from the umbrella's, so a future rebrand of the organisation does not rename the document. The umbrella is Spacecraft Software; the OS line keeps the Steelbore name; so does this.
The standard governs itself, and does so visibly: this repository is the §8 Texinfo manual it mandates, its commits are §6.3-signed, its dates are §14 UTC ISO 8601, and its own published HTML was brought into §9.1 compliance at v2.06 by the clause that section added.
Personal / hobby, per §5. See NOTICE.md for the no-warranty and
no-liability statement, CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution
scope, and SECURITY.md for reporting — including how to report
a normative defect with a security consequence.
Mohamed Hammad — Mohamed.Hammad [at] SpacecraftSoftware.org
https://Standard.SpacecraftSoftware.org/
Copyright (C) 2026 Mohamed Hammad & Spacecraft Software. The Standard is a document (§4.1.1) under CC-BY-SA-4.0; the CI tooling is GPL-3.0-or-later.