OS for satellite surveillance.

Just a quick post on operating systems used in satellite surveillance, which are the most stable in the world.

The most reliable operating systems tend to be mission-critical OSes that a lot of people arent familiar with, like RODOS, an operating system designed for satellites and space probes, and VxWorks, the operating system NASA uses for the Mars Pathfinder and Curiosity rovers.

These operating systems are designed with three primary features: reliability, reliability, and reliability. Every line is hand-traced and hand-checked multiple times, so as you can imagine they're very expensive to develop.

They’re also incredibly robust, designed not only for reliability but also to tolerate things that bring most other OSes to their knees, such as memory corruption or other hardware failures.


The next most reliable operating systems are mainframe operating systems like z/OS (IBM’s operating system for their z Systems mainframe) and COS (a batchmode operating system for Cray supercomputers).

RODOS is usually often used in highly secretive satellite surveillance centers which can monitor and manipulate huge numbers of individuals simultaneously.

Recently, India launched over 100 satellites into orbit to be used in surveillance and monitoring of individuals and there are many more which have been in existence by other countries. Operating systems like RODOS and VxWorks are a major component in the operating and control of these.

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