Free Software and High-Power Rocketry: to orbit <10kg ?


Subject: Free Software and High-Power Rocketry: to orbit <10kg ?
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 16:35:43 AKDT


University students, (Linux geeks. engineering students, ham radio
types) with a little encouragement from outside, and you get sub-orbital
  rockets with hopes for more to come.

The technical paper is here.
Free Software and High-Power Rocketry:
The Portland State Aerospace Society
        http://psas.pdx.edu/psas/usenix_2003/psas.html

The online publicity showed up here:
AMD chip, Linux used to launch rocket systems
        http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9939

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