Hi, As a proud Dad I'd like to thank my son for the work he did as part of the software team that wrote the software that MESSENGER uses.
The reason this is a bit special for me is that Messengers brain in the Command and Data handling is running software my son worked on at Windriver. http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/spacecraft/command.html The command and data module runs four "radiation hardened" "RAD6K" (RAD6000) PowerPC microprossors. Each runs VxWorks 5.3.1. These ones are particularly fast at 25MHz. If you know modern processors, this is not so fast, but hey, these chips don't flip bits when gamma rays bombard it. Anyway "Software in Space!" Cool, no? BTW my son also worked on the software for the "PATH FINDER" on Mars! Johnf --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
