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Mars Update

Though we haven’t seen a lot of Mars in the news lately, for those who keep track, the past couple of months have been somewhat stressful. A sandstorm started on Mars over a month...

17 years 4 months ago

Rovers in dusty peril?

After more than 1234 days in service, after surviving the extreme cold of Martian winter, the rovers may be facing their toughest challenge: summer dust storms. I live out in the...

17 years 5 months ago

Up from the Ashes...

July 4th 1997 NASA did something spectacular: demonstrated a bunch of new technologies and delivered a space craft to the surface of another planet. Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars...

17 years 5 months ago

One Tin Soldier Rides Away....

Not quite a year ago, Mars was in the news. Opportunity had made it to a new milestone – Victoria Crater. Among the issues being discussed at the time was: will we send the rover...

17 years 5 months ago

Announcing: Wind River Real-Time Core 5.0

In February 2007, Wind River announced the acquisition of FSMLabs RTCore technology along with our plans to offer the technology with Wind River Linux . Our progress on integration...

17 years 6 months ago

Why Integrity Customers Get Free Support from Wind River

Previously, our CMO John Bruggeman blogged about the importance of Service and Support for Linux. He called it the killer app for Linux. We recently announced our new VxWorks and...

17 years 6 months ago

VxWorks is helping make the world greener

One of my favorite sponsorship activities is the Challenge X competition, brought to us by our partner National Instruments (NI). Seventeen teams were challenged to re-engineer a...

17 years 6 months ago

Hi Mom, I'm home from Mars.

Scientists find evidence of ice on Mars. Not just "ice." We all know there’s ice on Mars, seasonal ice caps and all. Ice. "Enough to create oceans" should it ever melt. And not...

17 years 7 months ago

Real-time Reality

I love Mondays. Most people hate them but I’ve always loved them. My family has grown to accept this. My co-workers have learned to tolerate this (it’s when I hold my staff...

17 years 8 months ago

"Long ago, in a Galaxy far, far away"... perhaps not so far?

Can a planet exist such that you might see two "suns" setting each "night" ? It appears the answer is: yes. Bear with me… there’s a press from NASA / CalTech / JPL below that’s...

17 years 8 months ago