Journal Nymz's Journal: Proprietary Software Restrictions Threaten Space Station 5
Software used on three critical computers that control the orientation of the station continue to fail, even upon reboots. Even worse is the fact that Russia won't troubleshoot the system over communications they don't fully control, which means they must wait until the station is within a line-of-sight of a Russian ground station, which won't happen until Thursday. Could this incident provide incentive to consider use of open source software for future international space stations?
no. (Score:2)
No, there is really no need. NASA stabilized the systems last night (apparently it is 'open' enough to those in NASA) and today the russians should get a chance to upload their fix. It is more of a hardware issue than anything, they don't have a system like NASA's TDRSS, and the russian modules probably use a mode incompatible with TDRSS.
Open source is not the solution to all of mankind
Open source would solve the problem though (Score:2)
Actually, that stabilization wasn't a fix by NASA, it was a total bypass of the computers, as I wrote about in the linked article. As for it being a hardware issue, it c
Evidence of what? (Score:2)
Proof of what? Evidence of what? For years the SOP is that only Moscow ground control is permitted to communicate with said Russian computers, and they can only do so on a limited number of days because they don't have their own personal commuications satellite, and must therefore have a line-of-sight. No one (except maybe you) is disputing ho