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Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Wind River Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 December 2001
RTOS automates space "lifeboat"
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Wind River will be keeping its collective fingers crossed today when a prototype of the spacecraft that will serve as the "lifeboat" for the International Space Station (ISS) is tested.
Wind River will be keeping its collective fingers crossed today when a prototype of the spacecraft that will serve as the "lifeboat" for the International Space Station (ISS) is tested at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Centre at California's Edwards Air Force Base Dubbed the X-38, every function of this prototype, as well as the functions of the final space-based vehicle, will be controlled by Wind River's VxWorks embedded real-time operating system
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)