From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <ggsub@pragmada.co.cc>
Subject: Re: Curiosity rover on Mars
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:31:11 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-08-08T11:31:11-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91c0b518-899a-473f-96f8-2df630094412@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nYadncRnja0c57_N4p2dnAA@giganews.com>
On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 7:41:05 AM UTC-7, Peter C. Chapin wrote:
> The Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars earlier this week.
> Congratulations to NASA and to all those who worked on the daring and
> controversial new landing system---which apparently worked perfectly. I
> saw a NASA video that mentioned that there was 500,000 lines of code in
> the EDL (Entry, Descent, and Landing) system. Does anyone happen to know
> if there is any Ada on board that spacecraft?
According to
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-is-the-mars-curiosity-rovers-software-built-in
it's in C, possibly "mostly auto-generated".
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-08 14:41 Curiosity rover on Mars Peter C. Chapin
2012-08-08 18:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2012-08-09 5:23 ` Per Sandberg
2012-08-09 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-09 8:55 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-08-09 15:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-08-10 20:32 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-08-10 7:30 ` Charles H. Sampson
2012-08-30 11:27 ` Stephen Leake
2012-08-30 17:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-08-30 19:34 ` johnscpg
2012-08-10 13:03 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
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