pmirallesr

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[–] pmirallesr@piefed.social 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

generally robustness trumps everything else

Theoretically

So it’s generally a very conservative software stack and process.

Yes, but that sort of process promotes non-adoption of techniques and processes that could increase robustness but are shunned due to pessimistic conservativeness

[–] pmirallesr@piefed.social 2 points 18 hours ago

Yeah a fair bit of that too!

[–] pmirallesr@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago

No, we tape it to the table, duh. But it's annoying when the tape covers the spacebar!

[–] pmirallesr@piefed.social 3 points 18 hours ago

Hah. I don't disagree that money is not well used, but trust me, replacing those satellites is no small endeavour on many levels: Industrial capacity, launch capacity, workforce capacity, cost, will...

[–] pmirallesr@piefed.social 26 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

I'm a software engineer in space and the things I've heard are astounding. Basically space software as a sector is super backwards and operated under a "We're too far away to be hacked" mentality for way too long. Thankfully, that is changing, and the EU Space Act mandates cybersec in some cases

[–] pmirallesr@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Do you have some B€ to spare?