eCos on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

[Paul Beskeen <paulb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

Thought some of you might be interested to hear about a small $1.5
billion dollar scientific experiment that uses eCos. The final mission
of the Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
cosmic ray detector up to its home on the International Space Station.
eCos is used in its main data acquisition and control computers.

You can read about it in this article.
http://www.ecoscentric.com/news/press-110519.shtml

The project has been in gestation for a long time. They started work
using a Red Hat eCos release back in circa 2001-2. So kudos to all the
eCos old-timers from the Red Hat days - Alex, Bart, Daniel, Gary, Jifl,
John, Mark and Nick. There's a bit of you orbiting the earth every 90
minutes or so.

Cheers, Paul.
--
Paul Beskeen, Chairman & Director of Engineering
http://www.ecoscentric.com/

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