Ooooppps! I forgot about the Mars Polar Lander that was never heard from -
Wind River Helps JPL Search for Signs of Life with Mars Polar Lander
Company’s Reliable, Compact Embedded Software Is Operating System for
NASA/JPL Missions
Alameda, CA, December 3, 1999 — Wind River Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for
smart devices in the Internet age, today announced that Wind
River’s software is the computer operating system for JPL’s
Polar Lander space project, scheduled to land on Mars on
December 3, 1999. The NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Polar
Lander mission is charged with searching for water and organic
compounds on Mars—a potential indication of life on the red
planet. Polar Lander is the latest in a long series of missions,
including Mars Pathfinder, Stardust, Deep Space 1, and Climate
Orbiter, which Wind River’s reliable yet powerful software has
helped to successfully operate. |
