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
Yeah a fair bit of that too!
No, we tape it to the table, duh. But it’s annoying when the tape covers the spacebar!
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…
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
Do you have some B€ to spare?
Please release for other platforms as well!