[ECOS] eCos on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

[ECOS] eCos on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

[Paul Beskeen]

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.
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Re: [ECOS] eCos on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

[Ilija Kocho]

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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Re: [ECOS] eCos on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

[Paul Beskeen]

Hi Ilija,

On 21/05/2011 08:11, Ilija Kocho wrote:
> > 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?

A little off topic maybe :), but yes I have been able to image the ISS,
though the quality is nothing to write home about. Unfortunately and
annoyingly there are no visible passes at my location until June so I
will not be able to image Endeavour together with the ISS.

Paul.
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