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Autonomous Ocean-Powered Vehicle

NASA Demonstrates Novel Ocean-Powered Underwater Vehicle PASADENA, Calif. – NASA, U.S. Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater...

15 years 2 months ago

More Bacon: Increasing Science Return

In a recent blog I wrote, Bringing Back The Science Bacon , one of the things I talk about is increasing the science returns of a mission by doing some data processing on the...

15 years 2 months ago

Updates to Our VxWorks 653 Platform

In my previous post, I mentioned the update to our VxWork 653 platform but didn't go into too many details. I'll share a few more things in this post. Our VxWorks 653 Platform has...

15 years 2 months ago

And The 2010 SpaceOps Award for Outstanding Achievement Goes To...

Until today, I had never heard of The International Committee on Technical Interchange for Space Mission Operations. Or the SpaceOps Awards. An announcement arrived in my email...

15 years 2 months ago

VxWorks Flying High at Avionics Europe

Today at the Avionics Europe conference in Amsterdam, Wind River has announced some interesting news that highlights our success in avionics with the VxWorks product line. We...

15 years 2 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: Another Surprise NaN!

An Earlier QBM, "Surprise NAN" covered how floating point computations may become corrupted from unexpected sources. Today's Quit Bugging Me is about… another Surpise! NAN! An...

15 years 2 months ago

Domesticated Robotics?

A discussion about robotics was started up in an online discussion forum. A question was posed to the group: Will unmanned vehicles eventually see duty in civilian applications...

15 years 3 months ago

Bringing Home the Science Bacon

MRO recently passed a milestone of bringing back more data than all previous deep space missions combined. To do this MRO was equipped with a large dish antenna and powerful radio...

15 years 3 months ago

100 Trillion

"Billions and Billions" was a phrase, fantastic at the time, that made Carl Sagan famous. At the time he was talking about the stars in the Milky Way, how many there were. Next...

15 years 3 months ago

Neighbors

A few billion years ago this planet formed, orbiting an otherwise run-of-the-mill star. It was a wet world, covered with oceans, with a protective atmosphere. Water dominated the...

15 years 3 months ago