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Re:NASA - Phoenix has landed by xirium on Monday May 26, 2008 @12:24AM (#199970)
From the Wikipedia page, the RAD6000 was used in the Mars Rovers. I believe that the Mars Rovers used Java, partly because of static analysis that can be performed on source and object code and partly due to the garbage collection.
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Re:NASA - Phoenix has landed by jonknee on Monday May 26, 2008 @12:37AM (#199976)
I would be shocked if the actual rovers used Java. Perhaps Java is used in the tools used to control them (that send the signals), but not the little guys themselves.
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Re:NASA - Phoenix has landed by dcminter on Monday May 26, 2008 @10:34AM (#200226)
Yep:

"The places where NASA scientists have used Java for this mission is all on the ground side right now."

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/mars.html

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