BAE Systems’ 3U CompactPCI SBC at Home on Mars in Curiosity Rover
NewsAugust 07, 2012
The Curiosity rover landed on Mars late Sunday evening after traveling 36 weeks and across a 352 million mile expanse of space. Now safely at the base of Gale Crater on the Red Planet, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will begin a two-year scientific ...
The Curiosity rover landed on Mars late Sunday evening after traveling 36 weeks and across a 352 million mile expanse of space. Now safely at the base of Gale Crater on the Red Planet, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will begin a two-year scientific expedition powered not by boosters and rocket fuel, but by the Rover Computational Element (RCE) and CompactPCI Single Board Computers (SBCs).
