The Three Computers That Voted How $93 Billion Artemis 1 Space Rocket Should Launch
At last the Artemis 1 space rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 16/11/2022. Being able to watch it was uplifting.
The adventure is just unfolding. In two years Artemis 2 is scheduled to bring human crew near the blue boule. And in 2025 (in 3 years!) astronauts will land on the moon with the help of Artemis 3.
It is a very ambitious plan for the Humanity, and honestly, a very good use of rockets. For me, as a software engineer, it is very interesting what software is used by Artemis and Orion spacecraft that will demonstrate an emergency abort procedure rounding the Moon and coming back to Earth.
Here is all I was able to find about it!
There is voting!
Artemis 1 (the first Space Launch System) uses SLS Flight Software runs on the Flight Computer Operating Group (you can see them here) that consists of three computers, 3 processors and 256 MB RAM each, to control engines and boosters.
It is a way more advanced system than the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer that drove astronauts out of…
