NASA MMS Launches This Thursday!!!

[Alan Cudmore]

Nice work Jerry.. I wonder how many CPUs are on each MMS satellite?
Some of my software is on the main CPU of the Van Allen Probes as well.

Fingers crossed for a smooth launch tonight!

Alan

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Needell, Jerry <Jerry.Needell at unh.edu>
wrote:

>  A full description of the EMFISIS Instrument on Van Allen probes can be
> downloaded from:
> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11214-013-9993-6
> <http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-013-9993-6>
>
>  The MMS Instrument descriptions should be published soon after launch, I
> hope.
> The FIELDS processor board on MMS is very similar to the one on Van Allen
> Probes.
> The hardware and software for the processors for both missions were done
> by the same team.
> -Jerry
>
>  On Mar 11, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Paulo Villa <prcvilla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Since we're on this subject, where can I find this specific information
> (sw/hw specs) for reference?
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Paulo
>
> On 11 March 2015 at 17:11, Needell, Jerry <Jerry.Needell at unh.edu> wrote:
>
>> The FIELDS Instrument Suite on MMS also uses RTEMS (4.9.2 on a LEON3-FT
>> FPGA) - Go MMS!
>>
>> Also FYI, the EMFISIS Instrument on the Van Allen Probes (originally
>> known as Radiation Bet Storm Probes - RBSP) mission launched in 2012 uses
>> RTEMS (also 4.9.2 on a LEON3-FT FPGA) and has operated very successfully
>> for the past 2 years in the Radiation Belts!
>>
>> Jerry
>>  > On Mar 10, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Alan Cudmore was kind enough to pass this along
>> >
>> > After years of development the MMS satellites will be launched on March
>> > 12. MMS consists of 4 identical spacecraft, the main flight computers
>> run
>> > RTEMS 4.10 on a radiation hardened Coldfire CPU.
>> >
>> > Mission information here:
>> > http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov <http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/>
>> >
>> > You can watch the launch on :
>> > NASA EDGE USTREAM (8:45pm to 10:45pm EDT)
>> > http://www.ustream.tv/nasaedge
>> >
>> > or
>> >
>> > NASA TV (8:00pm to 11:00pm EDT)
>> > http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
>> >
>> > Scheduled Launch: 10:44pm EDT
>> >
>> >
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Our last RTEMS deployment has reached 5 years in orbit:
>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVv40M2aks
>> > SDO has 5 Coldfire CPUs with RTEMS. The main flight computer runs
>> vxWorks.
>> >
>> >
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