The Tianyi-33 Satellite Equipped with RROS Successfully Entered Orbit.

At 7:39 AM on December 9th, the Zhuque-2 YAO-3 launch vehicle was successfully launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. It successfully placed the Honghu Satellite, Tianyi-33 Satellite, and Honghu-2 Satellite into their designated orbits. The launch mission was a complete success.

The Zhuque-2 YAO-3 launch vehicle was launched from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center(Image Source: Xinhua News Agency)

The Tianyi-33 satellite is a 50kg class space science experimental satellite equipped with an operating system independently developed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications—the Rust-based dual-kernel real-time operating system RROS. RROS will carry out general tasks represented by tensorflow/k8s and real-time tasks represented by real-time file systems and real-time network transmission on the satellite. It will ensure the normal execution of upper-layer applications and scientific research tasks, such as time-delay measurement between satellite and ground, live video broadcasting, onboard web chat services, pseudo-SSH experiments, etc. This marks the world’s first official application of a Rust-written dual-kernel operating system in a satellite scenario.

The Tianyi-33 satellite