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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 amzn.eu/d/grBBm12

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Sotolf

@ApuntesCiencia @steeph @blacklight

I'm curious what language are you using to write onboard software now a days?

Apuntes de ciencia

@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

Sotolf

@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 :)

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