What is the Mars Curiosity Rover’s software built in?
The Mars Curiosity rover has landed successfully, and one of the promo videos “7 minutes of terror” brags about there being 500,000 lines of code. It’s a complicated problem, no doubt. But that is a lot of code, surely there was a pretty big programming effort behind it. Does anyone know anything about this project? I can only imagine it’s some kind of embedded C.
What is Curiosity’s packet structure?
For NASA’s Interplanetary Network, what does a packet look like? It’s obviously a form of redundant protocol, stored at the receiver and with built back up. Is there any documentation on the packet structure or the communication protocol, which has to span 14 minute communications?
Are there any FOSS operating systems available that conform to NASA’s JPL coding standards? [closed]
Closed 11 years ago.
Why would it take hours to decode transmissions from Curiosity rover via MRO?
This video clip by NASA says that data from Curiosity relayed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) would be stored for a few hours, then transmitted to Earth (apparently taking about 14 minutes), after which it would take hours for engineers to decode the data.