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Five Years - an engineer's perspective looking back

Back in 1994, a few of us at WRS had the pleasure of working with JPL on a mission based on a radical new concept: using Commercial Off-The-Shell (COTS) products to build a...

16 years 5 months ago

Military case study: VxWorks powers Thales' Astute-Class submarine periscope

The Astute nuclear-powered submarine is designed to patrol the world's oceans without being detected by surface ships and other submarines. The Astute deploys a number of...

16 years 6 months ago

But Not A Drop To Drink...

Congratulations are due to the Mars Phoenix Lander crew. Not only did their mission get it’s extension, they found the first part of what they were looking for. They’ve confirmed...

16 years 10 months ago

Wind River Webinar: Q and A

Hello All, last week as some of you know I was the featured presenter / presentation for a Webinar. (you may have problems watching that with firefox…) . During the course of the...

16 years 10 months ago

Astute optronic mast case study

I don’t often have the opportunity to discuss how Wind River’s Aerospace and Defence customers are using our technologies in their applications due to security restrictions and...

16 years 11 months ago

The Phoenix has landed... but the dust has not cleared

It’s another beautiful day in the Mojave, temps will easily pass the century mark, and there will be another batch of emails with various questions and "trolling" remarks about...

16 years 11 months ago

Rhapsody && Coverage Analysis

I’ve recently been working with a customer to integrate Wind River Coverage Analysis (formerly known as CoverageScope ) with Telelogic Rhapsody within their development tools...

"Did you watch it?"

Did I watch it? I’ve been asked about a dozen times since Phoenix landed if I watched the landing. Coverage was available, after all, on NASA-TV (both satellite and web feeds), and...

nEUROn UCAV programme

In case you missed the news, the article ‘ COTS for unmanned flights’ (Electronic Product Design, 22nd April 2008) describes how the nEUROn UCAV programme (Airforce Technology) has...

17 years 1 month ago

Four Years: Happy Birthday MERs!

About four years ago a pair of robots, who began life as MER-A and MER-B, landed on Mars, starting a 90 day mission. That was one of the most exciting Januaries I’ve ever...

17 years 5 months ago