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Yes thinkpads and Ethernet cable and routers and web servers (IIS and Apache Tomcat) are part of the Operational local network (OpsLan) onboard the ISS - they a
by houstonGuy 8y ago
Yes thinkpads and Ethernet cable and routers and web servers (IIS and Apache Tomcat) are part of the Operational local network (OpsLan) onboard the ISS - they are used primarily for astronaut (crew) mission planning, procedures and electronic communition - systems that are deemed not to be flight critical and are not directly used in command and control of the spacecraft (think email, documents and other messaging and notification systems)
Source: I was a ISS Flight Controller for 6 years and helped write the software for local intranet websites hosted onboard the ISS for the crew
- org3432 8y agoI had an engineer from Boeing reach out to me once for help with the store and forwarding of Ethernet frames from the science experiment outputs. At the time he had a laptop running Qnx that would capture the frames, then when the ISS was over Houston it would replay them for the down link. I wonder if they have a better system in place now.
- ronsor 8y agoI think the ISS networks over a geosynchronous satellite now (ISS -> satelite -> Houston)
- greglindahl 8y agoThe TDRSS system predates the ISS. It’s more expensive than a direct downlink.
- sherincall 8y agoOne of my favorite bug reports was a hardware issue on a thinkpad on the ISS. The report had a line like "There are no repro systems on earth".