Stoke Space in conjunction with The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation, The Southwest Research Institute and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is hosting the 18th Annual Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software (FSW 2025) in Seattle, Washington from March 24th to 27th, 2025
In the last several years, there has been a significant increase in the next generation of flight system architectures for space. Some of the advancements have been in multicore, soft-core, FPGA’s, space computers, operating systems, flight software and machine learning. This presents many opportunities in the space industry, as well as some significant challenges.
ELISA Project members Matt Weber, Chief Software Architect at Boeing, and Michael Monaghan, Computer Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will be at the workshop on Wednesday, March 26 at 11:20-11:45 am to give a presentation titled, “Making Penguins Fly.”
This presentation will touch on the objectives, challenges, and developments of the Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) foundation’s Aerospace and Space Grade Linux working group (WG.) The presentation will include specific topics from a Dec 10-12 Goddard Space Flight Center workshop. ELISA was formed to make it easier for companies to build and certify Linux-based safety-critical applications – systems whose failure could result in loss of human life, significant property damage, or environmental damage. ELISA members are working together to define and maintain a common set of tools and processes that can help companies demonstrate that a Linux-based system meets the necessary safety requirements for certification. The Aerospace Working Group develops use cases to inform and influence Linux architecture and related tools, works to derive technical requirements for avionics operating systems, and seeks to enhance and expand avionics software lifecycle processes, practices, and tools to enable the use of Linux in avionics systems that are certified to high design assurance levels. Space grade Linux, which recently made its open-source debut as an ELISA Special Interest Group (SIG), is a collaborative, open-source project bringing together space agencies, industry, academia, and non-profit organizations to establish a trusted ecosystem of Linux-based, open-source software for mission-critical spacecraft operations.
Other themes of the technical presentations include:
To learn more about the workshop or to register, visit the main event website here: https://flightsoftware.org/workshop/FSW2025.
