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I'd love for somebody with knowledge to comment re: the SpaceX flight control platform. There's Linux in the UI to be sure, but I'd strongly suspect there's a h
by EvanAnderson 6y ago
I'd love for somebody with knowledge to comment re: the SpaceX flight control platform. There's Linux in the UI to be sure, but I'd strongly suspect there's a hard-realtime OS that's doing the hardware-level communication to the flight hardware.
- synack 6y agoThere was a recent reddit AMA with some SpaceX engineers that confirmed that they run a buildroot system with RT patches for most things, and a handful of microcontrollers for the timing critical stuff.