One of many accounts of the NASA “Perseverance” rover landing on Mars is this one <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfgzTfw_J6o> by ever-dependable space nerd Scott Manley. He mentions that the umbilical carrying those camera images from the skycrane back to the lander is Ethernet, and that camera connections are done via USB 3. And yes, apparently there is Linux running on there somewhere as well.
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:22:51 +1300, I wrote:
And yes, apparently there is Linux running on there somewhere as well.
Clarification in this report <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD85fjdYL4I>: it’s the helicopter drone that is running Linux -- the rover itself still runs whatever it is NASA has used before. Seems the capabilities they wanted to implement on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor in the drone weren’t available in any proprietary OS, so they had to go with Linux.
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