SpaceX’s space suits are designed for optimum functionality with the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Check out a rare behind the scenes look at the development of SpaceX‘s new space suit. The same suit worn by NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley during their historic mission to the International Space Station in May.
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Powered by Linux, SpaceX successfully delivered NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into orbit
Even if you’re a macOS/iOS user or a Windows user, you are using Linux every single day. And you, probably, don’t even know it. How the hell is that even possible? Let me break it down for you. If you… :
… then you are using Linux.
On May 30, history was made when SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully delivered NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into orbit. What is less known about the event is that the launch was powered by Linux.
The Falcon 9’s onboard operating system is a stripped-down Linux running on three ordinary dual-core x86 processors. The flight software itself runs separately on each processor and is written in C/C++.
The Dragon spacecraft also runs Linux with flight software written in C++. The ship’s touchscreen interface is rendered using Chromium and JavaScript. If something were to go wrong with the interface, the astronauts have physical buttons to control the spacecraft.
However, SpaceX isn’t the first to bring the power of the open source kernel and software into the orbit. In 2013, the International Space Station reportedly switched from Windows to Linux. Not to mentions that NASA runs on Linux and even the Astrobee robots, that were deployed to the ISS not too long ago, run on Linux.
Read more about it here. Also read We are the SpaceX software team, ask us anything!
get a peek at the early days of the Quantum AI Lab: a partnership between NASA, Google, and a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer.
Google and NASA have teamed up and they came up with the world’s first quantum computer. Jump over the break to get a peek at the early days of the Quantum AI Lab: a partnership between NASA, Google, and a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer.
A graphic puzzle game for the iPad, OKO, uses images from the NASA database.
OKO is a puzzle video game for iPad. The goal is to reconstruct an image by stopping rotating circles cut out from this image. For each level, the animated pieces draw increasingly complex patterns. The challenge is to be attentive to image juxtapositions in order to stop the circles movement at the right moment.
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Rovio, the creators of the super popular game Angry Birds, has released a second teaser for a new chapter in the series: Angry Birds Space.
Rovio, the creators of the super popular game Angry Birds, has released a second teaser for a new chapter in the series: Angry Birds Space.
Using this app, you can spin the sun, zoom in on sunspots, inspect coronal holes–and when a solar flare erupts, your phone plays a little jingle to alert you!
After sending the first tweet from space, NASA is releasing a new free iPhone app called 3D Sun, and makes possible for each and every one of us to hold the entire sun in our hands.
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former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, Mac and iPhone fan, who “visited” space 4 times, including a 6 and a half months “visit”. Today, Leroy is the Executive Vice President of Excalibur Almaz, a commercial venture that hopes to be putting space tourists into true space journeys by sometime in the next few years.
A couple of days ago we told you that we got the first tweet from space sent using Tweetie. We told you at the time, that we are not sure if Mac or iPhone was used. Well, it seems that they didn’t use a Mac nor an iPhone, since NASA is pretty much Windows based. I was pretty sure that the tweet was re-routed, but now i tend to think that it wasn’t re-routed to the home base.
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We are not sure if they used a Mac or an iPhone, but this surely is badass. We got hello from out of space. Nasa astronauts sent the first tweet from SPACE.
We are not sure if they used a Mac or an iPhone, but this surely is badass. We got hello from out of space. Nasa astronauts sent the first tweet from SPACE. They got communication methods out there for sure, but it might have been just an uplink. They might have just sent the tweet back to base, and from there live for everybody to enjoy. Even if this was just a re-routing or a direct tweet, and Twitter didn’t evolved in the last few months, this is history right here.
