{"id":16427,"date":"2021-04-19T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=16427"},"modified":"2021-04-21T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T06:32:15","slug":"mars-2020-helicopter-contributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2021\/04\/19\/mars-2020-helicopter-contributor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friends of mine know that I’ve tried for a long time to get confirmation that curl is used in space. We’ve believed it to be likely but I’ve wanted to get a clear confirmation that this is indeed the fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today GitHub posted their article about open source in the Mars mission<\/a>, and they now provide a badge on their site for contributors of projects that are used in that mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have<\/a> one of those badges now. Only a few other of the current 879 recorded curl authors got it. Which seems to be due to them using a very old curl release (curl 7.19, released in September 2008) and they couldn’t match all contributors with emails or the authors didn’t have their emails verified on GitHub etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to that GitHub blog post, we are “almost 12,000” developers who got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While this strictly speaking doesn’t say that curl is actually used in space, I think it can probably be assumed to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the interplanetary curl development displayed in a single graph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See also: screenshotted curl credits<\/a> and curl supports NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Image by Aynur Zakirov<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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