Embedded Real-Time Linux runs NASA’s Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer

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Anonymous Reader writes “This technical article at ELJonline explains how NASA uses real-time embedded Linux to collect accurate atmospheric data at 70,000 feet. The Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer, developed by the Atmospheric Physics Branch team at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, is a PC/104-based system running embedded Linux plus the RTLinux real-time Linux extension. Read it at ELJonline