- For years, Wind River has provided reliable technology to NASA
Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) for space exploration in the Mars
Exploration Rover program and the Stardust Project, among others
- Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to
the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission
designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the
orbit of the Moon. ALAMEDA, Calif. January 5, 2004 - Wind River
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the worldwide market leader in
embedded software and services, today announced that the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Mars Exploration Rover,
Spirit, powered by Wind River technology, successfully landed on
Mars at approximately 8:35 p.m. PT, January 3, 2004. Spirit is
one of two twin robot geologists running on Wind River's
industry leading real-time operating system (RTOS), VxWorks. The
second twin, Opportunity, is scheduled to land on Mars on
January 24, 2004. Once on Mars, Spirit will leverage Wind
River's reliable technology to perform co