NASA's Artemis II relies on continuously updated open-source core Flight System software
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Jason Miller
Summary
NASA's Artemis II mission relied on the core Flight System (cFS), a continuously updated open-source software framework first developed in the early 2000s. Rather than being a legacy system, cFS has been actively maintained and improved by NASA engineers over two decades, powering everything from telescopes and avionics to command and control instruments. The article highlights NASA's collaborative, open-source approach to mission-critical software development.
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bskyNASA's Artemis II relies on continuously updated open-source core Flight System softwarefederalnewsnetwork.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledWhen NASA sent the Artemis II space launch system into orbit in early April, a 25-year-old software package underpinned many of its systems.
But this isn't some legacy application that the space agency hadn't updated over the last two-plus decades.
NASA built and maintains cFS through an open source platform
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