Overclock My Satellite

被引：16

作者：

Bedrossian, Nazareth ^{[1
]}

Karpenko, Mark ^{[2
]}

Bhatt, Sagar

机构：

[1] Charles Stark Draper Lab, Houston, TX 77058 USA

[2] USN, Postgrad Sch, Monterey, CA USA

来源：

IEEE SPECTRUM | 2012年 / 49卷 / 11期

关键词：

Technology transfer - Personal computing - NASA;

D O I：

10.1109/MSPEC.2012.6341207

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

"Let me get this straight," said a Nasa mission controller after we finished describing our plan to steer a sun-observation satellite at top speed. "You want to make the satellite do something it wasn't designed for?" We glanced at one another across the conference room table. "Well-yeah!" In some ways, a satellite is like an outdated computer: You want better performance and an upgrade is too expensive, so you overclock the one you've got. With little more than a free afternoon and a bit of hacker know-how, you instruct the software operating your motherboard to ramp up your clock speed, and voila! Better performance. © 2012 IEEE.

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