• dch82@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      So they can pull off a mars express error and fixit if they find it inflight?

      That would be cool

      • radiofreeval [any]@hexbear.net
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        5 days ago

        Each probe has two fully redundant computers so they push to one with prod and one is a fallback. A lot of times the code isn’t finished by landing and development happens in flight.