cygnus

That and their acquisition of Cygnus Solutions means they're the de facto gatekeepers of the Linux kernel and much of userspace.

Does anyone know if the Falcon 9 is theoretically capable of boosting a Cygnus vehicle to the ISS's orbit?

Places like Cygnus (bought by Red Hat) made a mint selling Free Software consulting services.

Yes, Cygnus software used to do this with their stuff, a long time ago, apparently.

Well Cygnus was pretty big and pioneered the free software business model, forking, and a whole bunch of things like that.

Shuttle is retired and Progress, ATV, HTV and Cygnus are one way trips so only good for taking out the garbage.

There was Cygnus Solutions, which I believe maintained GNU software (debugger, binutils) and contributed large parts of gcc.

Also missing from the article was a nod to Cygnus Support.

I started Cygnus with John Gilmore (#84 Toad) who was previously the first employee at #12 Sun (where other founder Tiemann had also worked).

> - A reentry breakup recorder Right, there was to be a video recording of the Cygnus spacecraft as it reentered and broke up (it's designed to disintegrate).

I can't find numbers to back this up, but from memory I believe they had sales of over $100 million per quarter at the time (the best place to look for how Cygnus impacted Red Had after the acquisition is to look at the quarterly reports from the year 2000 on).

My point is that Cygnus Solutions deftly channeled the doubts and problems raised by the first two slogans (which they didn't originate, but were going around at the time), into a successful service under the last slogan (which they did originate, in response).

The Cygnus is significantly smaller in volume and mass than the Dragon, so I assume now that the answer is "yes, a Falcon 9 could launch a Cygnus"

Mars north pole seems to be aligned halfway between Cygnus and Perseus, so there is no "North Star" equivalent on Mars.

Even the name was a recursive acronym, like GNU: "Cygnus, Your GNu Support"

As soon as I called and gave my SSN he said, wait, do you work for "Cygnus" and I said yes, but we figured what had gone wrong out and he said, "sorry, never mind".

Cygnus was one of the first companies who was able to show that it was in fact workable.

There have already been two other Red Hats, and Red Hat bought them both: JBoss and Cygnus.

Most of these programs were maintained by Cygnus, and now by Red Hat after they acquired them.