What really happened on Mars? (1997)

Re:What really happened on Mars? (1997) by mwcampbell on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @05:51PM (#9768086)

Is an embedded real-time OS like VxWorks still used in this role on this kind of mission today, or is a general-purpose OS like Linux used instead?

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Re:What really happened on Mars? (1997) by transientbug on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @06:37PM (#9768284)

Pretty sure VxWorks is still used today for a lot of spacecraft; Curiosity[^1] and at least at one point the SpaceX Dragon capsule[^2] it looks like.

^1: http://www.windriver.com/announces/curiosity/ ^2: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/pdf/DragonLabFactSh...

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Re:What really happened on Mars? (1997) by planteen on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:41AM (#9775995)

Yes, lots of spacecraft use traditional RTOSes like VxWorks, RTEMS, ThreadX, uCos, etc. Keep in mind that there are many computers on a large spacecraft - attitude control, command and data handling, instruments, and other microcontrollers.

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