Ask HN: Software and programming languages on the Mars Perseverance mission

20 点作者 peebz超过 4 年前

What software and programming languages are being used for the various systems on the Perseverance mission to Mars? What are the design principles and mission constraints that have influenced the choices that have been made?

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tectonic超过 4 年前

Check out NASA's Software Engineering Handbook: <a href="https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/nasa/nasa-hdbk-2203" rel="nofollow">https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/nasa/nasa-hdbk-2203</a>

whalesalad超过 4 年前

<a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3569577/the-technology-aboard-the-mars-rover-perseverance-an-inside-look.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cio.com/article/3569577/the-technology-aboard-th...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_computer_systems_on_board_the_Mars_rovers" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_compute...</a>

ampdepolymerase超过 4 年前

Probably the usual aerospace stack: C/C++ and Ada doing the heavy lifting. Since memory is no longer a (significant) space constraint in 2021, I suspect other high level languages are also used for the non-critical parts of the system.

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