Re: eCos on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

[Ilija Kocho <ilijak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers Paul

Would be nice if such news (or links to) regarding (free) eCos get
posted also in ecos.sourceware.org news.

Btw. have you been able to take a picture?

Regards
Ilija


On 20.05.2011 15:15, Paul Beskeen wrote:
> 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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