Fours Days Until RTEMS Reaches Mars

[Joel Sherrill]

Someone from JPL should comment on this.  There may be more 
than one subsystem running RTEMS on Curiosity. 

My understanding is that there is at least an updated version of the Electra radio
currently circling Mars.  This is an older presentation which includes Electra:

http://static.usenix.org/event/lisa06/tech/slides/byrne.pdf

The following URL is a presentation "Technology Overview and  
Operations Conceptfor SCAN Testbed" from June 2011 which describes 
how Electra and other radios were tested. It includes a lot of detailed
information: 

http://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/SpaceOps/CoNNeCT/documents/Ops%20Con%20for%20SCAN%20Testbed_SBIR.pptx

FWIW the Space and Rocket Center here in Huntsville is having an all night
party with the landing being the highlight on the IMAX. 

I would love to hear some more information from our JPL community members. :)

--joel
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From: Steven Grunza [sgrunza at ctdi.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 7:43 AM
To: Joel Sherrill; rtems-users at rtems.org
Subject: RE: Fours Days Until RTEMS Reaches Mars

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtems-users-bounces at rtems.org [mailto:rtems-users-
> bounces at rtems.org] On Behalf Of Joel Sherrill
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:27 PM
> To: rtems-users at rtems.org
> Subject: Fours Days Until RTEMS Reaches Mars
>
> Hi
>
> Just passing along that Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory) is only
> a few days from landing on Mars. There is some type of live feed.
>
> Details and countdown at:
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
>
> Let's keep our fingers crossed for a nice landing.
>
> --joel

How is RTEMS being used on Curiosity? (A google search for "Curiosity"
RTEMS didn't return anything useful)  Can anyone disclose what processor
and/or BSP is being used (and what version of RTEMS)?  My thought is
that if someone was looking for the most stable and reliable [version /
hw / cpu] combination I would try to match what is/has been sent on
inter-planetary journeys.

--Steven G