Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Wind River Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 19 June 2007
Honeywell pioneers Linux in space
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Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, will be the underlying operating system to support the processing of science and experiment data onboard the ST8 spacecraft.
Wind River has been selected by Honeywell Aerospace to support the development of NASA's New Millennium Program Space Technology 8 (ST8) Dependable Multiprocessor The contract marks the first time a Linux platform has been selected by Honeywell for a space mission
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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