NASA's New Horizons Completes Record-Setting Kuiper Belt Targeting Maneuvers

Post by noselasd » Sat, Nov 07, 2015, 1:12 PM UTC

akiselev wrote: post #9

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #2

I hadn't read about this before. From Wikipeida: The software of the probe runs on Nucleus RTOS operating system. Nucleus RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) offered by the Embedded Software Division of Mentor Graphics for various central processing unit (CPU) platforms. Nucleus RTOS is embedded software and is in an estimated 2.11 billion devices worldwide. ... The Nucleus RTOS is designed for deeply embedde…

I was surprised to find that New Horizon is using Nucleus but I guess it makes sense since it was developed largely outside of the NASA-JPL west coast mafia (only slightly joking...). JPL has been using Wind River's VxWorks RTOS since the mid-1990s including on missions like Mars Pathfinder, the Mars Rovers, and most recently on the Mars Science Lab Curiosity. I don't have an authoritative list but if two missions ru…