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samjh
November 4th, 2007, 06:42 PM
See here:

http://flightlinux.gsfc.nasa.gov/

and the open-source follow-up:

http://www.openflightlinux.org/?cat=1

Interesting applications of the Linux operating system! I wonder if they are compliant to any of the safety-critical standards out there, especially DO-178B guidelines for the NASA project.

After some deeper reading, it looks like a lot of satellites and space missions use Linux as their embedded operating system.