How a Raspberry Pi made it difficult for one astronaut to get to sleep on the ISS

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2021-06-08 20:30:05

By Liam Tung | June 8, 2021 -- 14:56 GMT (07:56 PDT) | Topic: Developer

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, the non-profit backing education projects around the Raspberry Pi computer, has detailed how its tiny hardware was used to run thousands of programs written by young students to the International Space Station (ISS).

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ISS operates in low Earth orbit and is supported by NASA and space agencies from Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada, serving as a laboratory for scientific research. Raspberry Pi, of course, is a hugely popular single board computer that has in this case been bundled up into a space-friendly package called Astro Pi.