Nasa's Orion: The next generation of spacecraft computing | Hardware | silicon.com
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As the spacecraft likely to carry astronauts to the moon or even to Mars, it's fitting that Nasa's Orion will contain the most advanced computing tech ever sent into orbit.
Orion marks a step change in spacecraft computing, far outstripping the processing power and capabilities of systems onboard Nasa's current manned craft, the Space Shuttle.
"Compared with the computers that fly the Shuttle today - perfectly adequately - the Orion computers are 500 or 1,000 times faster and more capable," Todd Smithgall, Orion avionics systems engineer at Honeywell Aerospace, the company working with Lockheed Martin and Nasa to produce computing hardware and software for Orion, told silicon.com.
But it's not raw horsepower that makes Orion's IT special. The onboard systems will help make Orion one of the most self-sufficient spacecraft ever launched when it begins manned spaceflights later this decade.
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