Ada on the way to Mars

Ada on the way to Mars

[Volkert]

Yesterday the first european mars mission (Mars Express) started.
Many embedded applications (the for example in the Beagle2) are 
developed in Ada. Has someone more information on this?

Volkert

Re: Ada on the way to Mars

[Vinzent Hoefler]

Volkert wrote:

>Yesterday the first european mars mission (Mars Express) started.
>Many embedded applications (the for example in the Beagle2) are 
>developed in Ada. Has someone more information on this?

See <BB011381.2FAE%yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk> (below the signature)
and perhaps you should check out
<http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.html> and
<http://www.beagle2.com> if you haven't already.

Unfortunately no mentioning of Ada there, it seems.


Vinzent.

Re: Ada on the way to Mars

[Preben Randhol]

Volkert wrote:
> Yesterday the first european mars mission (Mars Express) started.
> Many embedded applications (the for example in the Beagle2) are 
> developed in Ada. Has someone more information on this?

Ada 83 or Ada 95?

-- 
Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/

Re: Ada on the way to Mars

[Volkert]

Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message news:<slrnbdp31l.1lk.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>...
> Volkert wrote:
> > Yesterday the first european mars mission (Mars Express) started.
> > Many embedded applications (the for example in the Beagle2) are 
> > developed in Ada. Has someone more information on this?
> 
> Ada 83 or Ada 95?
for the Beagle2 it is Ada 95 with ravenscar tasking subset.

Re: Ada on the way to Mars

[Colin Paul Gloster]

Volkert <volkert@nivoba.de> wrote:
"Yesterday the first european mars mission (Mars Express) started.
Many embedded applications (the for example in the Beagle2) are 
developed in Ada. Has someone more information on this?"

Yes, Beagle 2 has an ERC32 running at about 10 MHz (or it may be 8MHz).

Elsewhere in the mission...

The landing software could be construed to be an example of code reuse
because it is using Ada 83 code from the Huygens lander. However, Huygens
is not due to start entering Titan's atmosphere until long after its first
Martian heir gets into action.

Re: Ada on the way to Mars

[Preben Randhol]

Colin Paul Gloster wrote:
> The landing software could be construed to be an example of code reuse
> because it is using Ada 83 code from the Huygens lander. However, Huygens
> is not due to start entering Titan's atmosphere until long after its first
> Martian heir gets into action.

Code preuse? ;-)

Hope it will be a success story.
-- 
Preben Randhol         �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�