Right now, 400km above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, are two very special Raspberry Pi computers. They were launched into space on 6 December 2015 and are, most assuredly, the farthest-travelled Raspberry Pi computers in existence. Each year they run experiments that school students create in the European Astro Pi Challenge.
Left: Astro Pi Vis (Ed); right: Astro Pi IR (Izzy). Image credit: ESA.
The European Columbus module
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of the European Columbus module. The Columbus module is the European Space Agency’s largest single contribution to the ISS, and it supports research in many scientific disciplines, from astrobiology and solar science to metallurgy and psychology. More than 225 experiments have been carried out inside it during the past decade. It’s also home to our Astro Pi computers.
Here’s a video from 7 February 2008, when Space Shuttle Atlantis went skywards carrying the Columbus module in … // Read more: original article.
