Name: Tuning Linux for Embedded Space Applications - Simon Corbin, CNES
Start: 2025-08-26T16:40:00+0200
End: 2025-08-26T16:50:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Tuesday August 26, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 CEST

Elicium 1

Space is a hostile world, requiring many precautions to be taken when embedding software in a spacecraft. Historically, this results in hardware targets embedding chips that are qualified and tolerant to the environment (radiation in particular), but rather old, expensive and produced in small batches.

The expansion of “New Space” has democratized the use of COTS, considerably increasing available onboard computing power and opening up new ways of embedding applications in satellites.

While it can be tedious to port an application onboard (limited to C language, restricted memory and computing power, limited user community...), using Linux minimizes the effort involved in porting an algorithm onboard. However, the world of on-board space applications requires compliance with numerous rules and standards. This presentation aims to provide an overview of the challenges involved in using Linux onboard a space system.

The aim is to give an overview of how we make embedded software at CNES and how Linux can take us to new dimensions. The following topics will be discussed regarding embedded Linux for space applications :

- Real time aspects

- Reliability

- Processes segregation

Speakers

Simon Corbin

Embedded software engineer, CNES

I'm a software engineer with 6 years experience in the space industry. For the past 4 years, I've been interested in on-board software for space vehicles. More recently, I've been working on configuring Linux to make on-board applications easier and faster while maintaining a high... Read More →

Tuesday August 26, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 CEST
Elicium 1

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Simon Corbin

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