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Building an OS from the ground up would take a lot of money and manpower, and NASA aren't exactly rolling in cash nowadays. And while yes, in-house software wo
by hrkristian 13y ago
Building an OS from the ground up would take a lot of money and manpower, and NASA aren't exactly rolling in cash nowadays.
And while yes, in-house software would be safe against most existing malware, and general malware, ISS would not be safe from direct attacks. Those are the real threat anyway...
- freehunter 13y agoVxWorks is pretty popular with space agencies (NASA uses it, as well as SpaceX. Curiosity and Dragon both run VxWorks RTOS). It has a 64-bit mode for Intel processors, runs on HRFS, DOSFS, and NFS, has IPv6 built in, and is POSIX compliant. While direct attacks are a real threat, I don't see anywhere saying this was a direct attack. Not using an off-the-shelf OS could have mitigated the attack if it wasn't a direct attack.