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NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms

by lindstorm on 6/18/16, 1:19 PM with 21 comments

• by wereHamster on 6/18/16, 3:00 PM

  Misleading title

  > Just to be clear Node.js does not run IN a spacesuit. It does however support spacesuit operations, processing, logistics, etc...

  (source: https://twitter.com/CollinEstes/status/741994459349417984)

• by danso on 6/18/16, 1:40 PM

  Important addendum: Node is not for real-time safety-critical systems https://mobile.twitter.com/d4rw1n1s7/status/7430105947862507...

• by auganov on 6/18/16, 2:54 PM

  Made me think of Lisp at JPL, one of my favourite software-dev history stories. http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

• by kenOfYugen on 6/18/16, 2:44 PM

  Presentation at EnterpriseJS Austin:

  Spacesuits and Node.js - How open source will change NASA

  https://vimeo.com/168064722

• by eggy on 6/18/16, 3:52 PM

  Forth code ran on the Rosetta lander's space qualified, radiation hardened, 16-bit Harris RTX2010 processor. The OS could even be changed via the radio link by writing new code to EEPROM [1].

  Let Node try that ;) On second thought...

  [1] http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2003ESASP.532E..72B...

• by awinder on 6/18/16, 2:52 PM

  So now we update the saying to "JavaScript is eating the universe", right?

• by BrutallyHonest on 6/18/16, 2:40 PM

  Why would NASA somehow be invincible to hype?

• by tacos on 6/18/16, 3:01 PM

  It's always nice to feel appreciated, but the validation-seeking pile-on in that Twitter thread is a little awkward.

  Reward yourself with a cookie then go read your Github Issues tab, guys...