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SpaceX: Lessons Learned Developing Software For Space Vehicles

Posted by timothy on from the no-one-can-hear-you-bleep-in-space dept.

jrepin writes "On day two of the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference, Robert Rose of SpaceX spoke about the 'Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles.' In his talk, he discussed how SpaceX develops its Linux-based software for a wide variety of tasks needed to put spacecraft into orbit—and eventually beyond. Linux runs everywhere at SpaceX, he said, on everything from desktops to spacecraft."

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  1. Re:Holy Shit! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    malloc() and new() are non-deterministic in many ways and therefore to be banned in anything truely real-time.

    Don't worry. We now have garbage collected languages where we don't need malloc/free any longer. :-)

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  2. Re:Why mention Linux? by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Linux is mentioned twice in the summary. Is there a reason why?"

    2013 will be the year of Linux on spaceships.