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cFS

The Core Flight System (cFS)

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The Core Flight System (cFS)

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-02-23 21:20:49 UTC to 2026-05-02 00:53:21 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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The engineering behind Artemis and SLS is a masterclass in safety-critical design. The quad redundant Primary runs on on a quadruple config PPC-750 CPU with the Green Hills Integrity OS and ARINC653 framework While the Back up is on a LEON 3 (SPARKV8) CPU using the VxWorks and NASA's CFS framework. (https://github.com/nasa/cFS) NASA actually makes all this publicly available information available on their NTRS server. Primary and BFS Info: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190000011/downloads/20... Orion BFS: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230002185/downloads/FS...
In Artemis II fault tolerance
Aerospace specific software that goes to space or code that just happens to go to space as part of bigger projects? Here are a couple of the former: RTEMS https://www.rtems.org/ Core Flight System (cFS) https://github.com/nasa/cFS NASA has a lot of open source projects including a bunch that don't "go to space" but are used in space related projects (check each project for contributor guidelines): https://github.com/nasa/openmct - web based mission control software https://github.com/nasa/trick - simulation for for all phases of space vehicle development You should check out their github organization for all available projects (https://github.com/nasa). Also, European things as well such as the ESA's github organization: https://github.com/esa, and Germany's DLR: https://github.com/DLR-SC. Another good group to check out is TU Delft: http
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s://github.com/tudelft, https://github.com/tudelft-iv and others. Not to mention a bunch of open source CFD projects on github that are widely used and other similar tools. Again, not strictly software that goes to space, but you will find more of that too if you search for projects related to those mentioned above.
In Ask HN: What open source projects go to space?

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