Intresting read. RISC-V seems to be the answer to the long awaited replacement to PPC. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has achieved a landmark engineering milestone by repurposing Ingenuity's idle Qualcomm Helicopter Base Station

and Perseverance using the same hardware architecture found in 1990s Apple iMacs — running Wind River VxWorks as the real-time operating system powering both the rover and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter whose orbital imagery makes this localization capability possible.

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From a ThinkPad on the Space Shuttle to Ingenuity flying on Mars. Linux has quietly become the most popular operating system in the known universe, and the next chapter of Space Grade Linux is just getting started with the Linux Foundation and ELISA.