---
title: "The Mru research log"
url: https://mru.space/research/
description: "Everything Mru publishes: the whitepaper, simulation results and software releases, each with its method, its limits and how to cite it."
---

Research

# The log

Papers, results and releases, newest first. All of it is open: papers under CC BY 4.0, code under Apache 2.0.

[RSS feed](https://mru.space/research/feed.xml) [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/20579438) [GitHub](https://github.com/mruspace)

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![Correct results over 20,000 ticks. Fixed TMR stops at 8,993. The shrinking quorum reaches 14,490.](https://mru.space/charts/flight-correct-light.svg)

№ 004 · Release · Latest

## 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

](https://mru.space/research/flight-prototype/)

[All](https://mru.space/research/) [Papers](https://mru.space/research/?kind=papers) [Results](https://mru.space/research/?kind=results) [Releases](https://mru.space/research/?kind=releases) [Notes](https://mru.space/research/?kind=notes)

4 entries since May 2026

[№ 004 Release

Mru Flight: a first prototype

Onboard software that keeps a spacecraft working as its computers fail.

7 Oct 2026
9 min](https://mru.space/research/flight-prototype/) [№ 003 Release

Mru 2049: the sense of scale

A browser flight simulator on real astronomical data. 109,389 stars, planets right for any date.

Sep 2026
4 min](https://docs.mru.space/lab/2049/) [№ 002 Results

Same hardware, 1.34× the useful work

What a shrinking quorum buys on hardware that only ever decays. 10,000 simulated missions.

29 Sep 2026
12 min](https://mru.space/research/dusk-results/) [№ 001 Paper

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.

May 2026
PDF · DOI](https://zenodo.org/records/20579438)

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}
}
```