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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...

14 years 7 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...

14 years 7 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...

14 years 8 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...

14 years 8 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...

14 years 8 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...

14 years 8 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...

14 years 8 months ago

Police Drone: Episode 2

On Thursday last week, I read that an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) had been recently used by the UK's Merseyside Police in the tracking and arrest of two suspected car thieves (BBC...

14 years 9 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: Revalidated

One day, I get this phone call. "We're working with the system, we see the calls that update the exception handlers early on – connecting the clock routines, etc. Then not very...

14 years 9 months ago

A Decade at Wind River

On Wednesday, it will be exactly ten years since I joined Wind River. I was thinking about this on my flight to San Francisco on Saturday, and as well as wondering how I long I've...

14 years 9 months ago