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Mru Flight: onboard software that keeps working as its computers fail
A small, verified Rust core and a demo on real processes with faults injected. With one replica stuck and another dead, it delivered 14,490 correct results where fixed TMR delivered 8,993.
7 Oct 2026 · 9 min read · v0.1.1
Mru Flight: a first prototype
Onboard software that keeps a spacecraft working as its computers fail.
Mru 2049: the sense of scale
A browser flight simulator on real astronomical data. 109,389 stars, planets right for any date.
Same hardware, 1.34× the useful work
What a shrinking quorum buys on hardware that only ever decays. 10,000 simulated missions.
A fault-tolerant operating system for thousand-year autonomous operation
The whitepaper. The Degradation-First Principle, six layers, and how to test a claim about a thousand years.
Nothing of this kind yet. The log above lists every entry.
Cite the whitepaper
W. Binns, Mru: A Fault-Tolerant Operating System for Thousand-Year Autonomous Operation, 2026.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.20579438 · CC BY 4.0
@misc{binns2026mru,
author = {Binns, Will},
title = {Mru: A Fault-Tolerant Operating System
for Thousand-Year Autonomous Operation},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20579438}
}