Linux for Space - Mission Begins
summary
A community is building a Yocto-based reference distribution for CubeSats, with requirements collected from Czech Aerospace Research Centre and university partners and structured against ESA ECSS rules. Key concrete rules include a radiation-triggered immediate shutdown within seconds, a read-only filesystem and multiple redundant Linux instances to survive bitflips, plus strict power budget and boot/firmware rollback behavior. Early test targets are an ARM-based CubeSat board already flown in orbit and lightweight balloon Raspberry Pi experiments.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:43Who We Are
- 2:43Aim
- 4:01European Space Agency Standards
- 7:09Cubesat
- 14:03Requirement Collection
- 18:41Limited Power
- 20:53Technical Requirement Specification
- 23:45Power Budget
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