Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Black Boxes for Spacecrafts

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-many-raunchy-jokes-to-choose-from dept.

karvind writes "NewScientist is running story about NASA's plan to put small, heat-resistant black boxes that will transmit data back to Earth when future space probes break up during re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere. NASA will work with Aerospace Corporation to develop black boxes called Reentry Breakup Recorders (REBRs) weighing just 1 kilogram and spanning less than 30 centimetres."

4 of 125 comments (clear)

  1. Just make sure you don't put Windows on these by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Blue Screen of Orbit Reentry is not a fun thing to experience.

  2. Slightly worrying for bees by mrRay720 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "These things are so light and easy to attach, we would like to have several on everything that flies"

    Try getting back in your hive now, bitch!

  3. Linux there too? by ChipMonk · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've heard of squeezing Linux into small devices, but a window manager on a space probe is a bit ridiculous, don't you think? TCP just isn't designed to handle that much lag time and network interference.

  4. "Aircrafts," eh? by H_Fisher · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, the editorim didn't pay attentions to verb endae during their English classices.