The rover Curiosity that landed on Mars on monday features a PowerPC 750 (G3) at 200Mhz : )

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134041-inside-nasas-curiosity-its-an-apple-airport-extreme-with-wheels

PowerPC landed on Mars !! \o/

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Good, let's keep it there!

PowerPC found no life on earth so it had to go seek it in space? :)

> PowerPC landed on Mars !!

RAD750's predecessor RAD6000 (radiation-hardened and stripped-down POWER1) has been on Mars since 1997 even:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RAD6000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder

RAD750 has been orbiting Mars since 2006:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter#Electronic_systems

Some more links on Power Architecture currently in space:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHPPC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_computer_systems_on_board_the_Mars_rovers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening#Examples_of_rad-hard_computers

The future of Power Architecture in space:
https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/freescale-power-architecture-technology-licensed-for-space-missions
https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2012/january/precision-space-maneuvers.html
https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/muse_en
http://cdn0.scrvt.com/fokus/9a21364eee34a5f5/f814e4506e81f02eae19187a70d24287/SQC_Project_information_MUSE_1402_EN.pdf

/me thinks Andreas_Wolf needs a girlfriend...

takemehomegrandma,

yeah, I can't imagine there'd be any PPC fans on a Morph OS fans ;)

/me thinks granny didn't think of the consequences that might have .....

[ Edited by Kronos 07.08.2012 - 19:32 ]

> /me thinks Andreas_Wolf needs a girlfriend... :-P

Thank you for your valuable and elaborated contribution to this thread's topic :-)

@Kronos,
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Remove all of your text between and including the word "of" and ending with ".....", and I think your statement might be more accurate.

@TMHG:
The links provided by Andreas provide interesting information. IMHO it's better to have accurate information and links instead of comments like the one you have made that degrade the quality of this forum. In other words: leave Andreas in peace.

Oh! My! God!

takemehomegrandma,
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Right!
Girlfriend
Courtship
Domestic partnership
Marriage
Wedding



[ Editiert durch polluks 08.08.2012 - 09:41 ]

remember me not to start anymore topics here as lately they all seem to go into personal offenses after a few posts...

Picture of the milky way from the surface of mars:

http://i.imgur.com/rV43i.jpg

@SoundSquare Just remember that it takes a child to raze a community.

stephen_robinson,
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I think that was actually funny. At least I laughed a bit. Cheers!

That just sounds lame takemehomegrandma, stop attacking, Andreas showed some real interesting stuff here !!!

But tehy forgot the most important... yes the MorphOS because with our OS the robot doesn't take the strange photos with supposed martians.

>> PowerPC landed on Mars !!

> RAD750's predecessor RAD6000 (radiation-hardened and
> stripped-down POWER1) has been on Mars since 1997 even: [...]
> RAD750 has been orbiting Mars since 2006: [...]

I just noticed that the current InSight lander and upcoming Mars 2020 rover (will) again use the RAD750, just like their predecessor MSL/Curiosity does:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/insight/landing/mission/spacecraft/#computer_software
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/rover/brains/

I find it curious (pun intended) that computational requirements for planetary landers and rovers apparently haven't increased in a decade.

> The future of Power Architecture in space:
> https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/freescale-power-architecture-technology-licensed-for-space-missions

Maybe this is what will be used for the successor of Mars 2020 then. Details on RAD5500 / RAD5510 / RAD5515 / RAD5545:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD5500
http://flightsoftware.jhuapl.edu/files/2016/Day-2/Day-2-13-Saridakis.pdf
BAE Systems’ Next-Generation Processors (page 2)
Radiation-hardened electronics product guide
https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/next-generation-radiation-hardened-computer-for-space
https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/making-a-way-in-the-universe
Datasheets: RAD5545 SpaceVPX SBC, RAD5510 SoC, RAD5515 SoC, RAD5545 SoC


Edit: made non-working links point to Wayback Machine
Edit2: InSight landed 11/2018
Edit3: Perseverance launched 07/2020
Edit4: Perseverance landed 02/2021

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 19.02.2021 - 15:01 ]

Update:

> Details on RAD5500 / RAD5510 / RAD5515 / RAD5545: […]

Fabrication has started. And it seems there has been some renaming and diversification going on:
RAD5500 is still the radiation-hardened e5500 core. RAD5545 is still the name of both the RAD5500-based quad-core SoC and the SpaceVPX SBC based on the RAD5545 SoC. RAD510 is the new name of both the RAD5500-based single-core SoC (previously RAD5510/RAD5515) and the new cPCI SBC based on the RAD510 SoC.

https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/bae-systems-collaborates-with-globalfoundries-to-produce-radiation-hardened-single-board-computers-for-space
RAD510 SBC datasheet
Radiation‑hardened electronics product guide (p. 6/7, 16/17)
https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/market-update-nov-21
https://www.baesystems.com/en/feature/from-sci-fi-to-sci-fact
https://www.baesystems.com/en/our-company/our-businesses/electronic-systems/product-sites/space-products-and-processing/radiation-hardened-electronics-produ


Edit: added more links

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 21.05.2024 - 15:58 ]

> Maybe this is what will be used for the successor of Mars 2020 then.

The future of Power(PC) in space getting doubtful:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/06/nasas_spaceflight_computer_risc_v/
https://www.talospace.com/2022/09/the-rad750s-successor-looks-like-its.html
https://www.microchip.com/en-us/about/news-releases/products/microchip-unveils-industrys-highest-performance-64-bit-hpsc-mpu


Edit: added another link

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 21.11.2024 - 19:22 ]