Way cool, John! Fred
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:57 AM, John Fabiani <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > --- 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]
