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Old October 16th 03, 06:52 PM
Tweak
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Default Which operating system is used in spacecraft?

Which operating system/systems is currently being used in spacecrafts? Was
FlightLinux implemented as the standard? Any information you can provide
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


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Old October 16th 03, 09:09 PM
Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)
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"Tweak" wrote in message
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Which operating system/systems is currently being used in spacecrafts?

Was
FlightLinux implemented as the standard? Any information you can provide
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


There is as far as I know no "standard".

The Shuttle uses HAL/S and I don't think you can really descibe it as having
an OS.

Many spacecraft have software written directly to the hardware with no
intervening OS.






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Old October 16th 03, 10:13 PM
Derek Lyons
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"Tweak" wrote:

Which operating system/systems is currently being used in spacecrafts? Was
FlightLinux implemented as the standard? Any information you can provide
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


Most flight computers, like most computers that are not 'general
purpose', have something that Linux folks, let alone Windows folks,
would not recognize as an OS.

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Old October 17th 03, 02:20 AM
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"Tweak" wrote in message ...
Which operating system/systems is currently being used in spacecrafts? Was
FlightLinux implemented as the standard? Any information you can provide
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


The unmanned missions Mars Pathfinder, Deep Space 1, and Deep Impact use vxWorks.
(The first two have already finished. Deep Impact should launch in 14-15 months.)

http://www.windriver.com/products/vxworks5/index.html

--Bob Werner
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Old October 17th 03, 05:50 AM
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Default Which operating system is used in spacecraft?

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:52:10 -0700, "Tweak" wrote:

Which operating system/systems is currently being used in spacecrafts? Was
FlightLinux implemented as the standard? Any information you can provide
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


The shuttle carries a number of laptop computers that run on Windows variants
(I'm not sure if the latest version is Win98 or Win2k). The ISS uses Solaris, I
think.

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Old October 17th 03, 06:36 AM
Derek Lyons
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Default Which operating system is used in spacecraft?

"Michael R. Grabois ... change $ to \"s\""
wrote:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:52:10 -0700, "Tweak" wrote:

Which operating system/systems is currently being used in spacecrafts? Was
FlightLinux implemented as the standard? Any information you can provide
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


The shuttle carries a number of laptop computers that run on Windows variants
(I'm not sure if the latest version is Win98 or Win2k). The ISS uses Solaris, I
think.


Nit: Those laptops are used *on* spacecraft, not *in* spacecraft, as
they are not used for control, but for administrative tasks.

D.
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Old October 17th 03, 02:58 PM
Jorge R. Frank
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"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote in
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"Tweak" wrote in message
...
Which operating system/systems is currently being used in
spacecrafts?

Was
FlightLinux implemented as the standard? Any information you can
provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


There is as far as I know no "standard".

The Shuttle uses HAL/S and I don't think you can really descibe it as
having an OS.


The four PASS computers have a primitive OS called GCOS (don't remember
what it stands for), mostly written in AP-101S assembly language. I don't
think the BFS has an OS per se.


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Old October 17th 03, 03:56 PM
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Soyuz software is used by the Argon-16 flight computer, first designed
in 1973, and first flown in 1980 on Soyuz T-1. I believe the software
is now in version 18, build B, but I could be wrong.
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Old October 18th 03, 09:50 PM
Earl
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"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in
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The four PASS computers have a primitive OS called GCOS (don't
remember what it stands for), mostly written in AP-101S assembly
language. I don't think the BFS has an OS per se.


FCOS - Flight Computer Operating System
 




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