Gregory's Server@blacklight The knowledge and attention to details in today onboard software systems is equivalent to that of those days, I assure you 🛰️
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@steeph @blacklight I make satellite control centers for a living, and in my company there is a division fully devoted to onboard software, so I’m exposed to that as well. There is this concept of autonomy by which space vehicles need to be fully resilient to ground and or communications mishaps. In case you are interested I recommend this book https://amzn.eu/d/grBBm12  @ApuntesCiencia @steeph @blacklight I'm curious what language are you using to write onboard software now a days? @sotolf @steeph @blacklight There has been a transition from Ada to secured versions of C (without dynamic memory, limited use of pointers…). Our flight dynamics core is in Fortran. Ground control uses C++ and Java with a fair amount of scripting in dynamic languages (mostly Python). Web UIs use JavaScript @ApuntesCiencia @steeph @blacklight Ah, interesting :) that's cool to hear :) kind of sad to see Ada go, but I mean, it's not the most popular language now adays :)  @ApuntesCiencia if you mean in aerospace engineering, I may believe you - I've seen seminars from ESA on how they use Ada for fault-proof code and it's beyond impressive. If you mean commercial code outside of aerospace... Well, it's another thing. @blacklight I meant aerospace only, yes. But both institutional (such as ESA) and commercial (such as my company) at the end of the day, shall fly stuff. I make satellite control centers for a living, and in my company there is a division fully devoted to onboard software, so I’m exposed to that as well. I learnt Ada as part of my internal training, big fun.  @maphew @blacklight Onboard SW refers to software that runs within a vehicle (ship, car, aircraft…). Due to déformation professionnelle I use it for SW that runs aboard spacecrafts  @meltedcheese @blacklight @maphew Technically “onboard” refers to vehicles (cars, ships, spacecrafts…) while “embedded” systems run everywhere, from a washing machine to a smart cable @ApuntesCiencia @meltedcheese @blacklight @maphew do you have seen changes on the quality of onboard system. I'm asking because you mentioned cars. And well they are not as reliable. @Kyebr @meltedcheese @blacklight @maphew No, sorry. My expertise is spacecrafts and, even then, I don't do onboard but ground systems, although I'm somewhat exposed to those as well as you may imagine (the space and the ground segments talk to each other...) |
@ApuntesCiencia @blacklight I don't know in what way, but I'd like to read more about that.