[kwlug-disc] Linux has made it to Mars

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

For those who want to dig deeper.

Here is an article on the helicopter that has Linux.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/aerospace/robotic-exploration/nasa-designed-perseverance-helicopter-rover-fly-autonomously-mars

This is the framework that NASA is using on it (open source)

https://github.com/nasa/fprime

And since this is a proof of concept mainly (that something can fly on
Mars), it is made of off the shelf parts, i.e. not radiation shielded and
ruggedized

https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/46229/CL%2317-6243.pdf

Linux or not, it is pretty cool. Linux just makes it double cool ...
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