New Methodology for NASA GN&C Flight Software Development

[TerraMimic]

Found this article in my email today, and I figured I would share it with everybody.


"A new workflow lets NASA, Lockheed, and partners simulate a 10-day Orion mission in just one day."

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Although, I do have to admit, from the summary alone I thought, "NASA finally figured out that they need to press 'T'?"

 

[MaverickSawyer]

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:hail: the almighty "T"!

 

[n72.75]

It's called Runge-Kutta....

 

[communist]

It's called Runge-Kutta....

"T" is Runge-Kutta,i didnt know that :rofl:

 

[T.Neo]

I can imagine it now:

"NASA inspired by Orbiter to create space-sim for avionics and spacecraft systems testing."

"Orion program costs cut by a factor of ten after NASA learns how to press the 'T' key."

:lol:

 

[Wishbone]

There's nothing wrong with automated code generation except that the resultant code is often incomprehensible and you have to prove the generator is not buggy...

 

[Moach]

(...)
"Orion program costs cut by a factor of ten after NASA learns how to press the 'T' key."

:lol::lol::lol:

and several years later, they'd announce in a tone of wary suspicion:

"Engineer propose that pressing 'T' a second time could yield ANOTHER tenfold acceleration of simulation logic, but extensive feasability research is still being done"


then, someone would make the bold claim:

"Scientists suggest that for each time 'T' is pressed, the simulation accelerates by a factor of 10, theorizing that the effects of 'T' may be surprisingly cumulative"

i'm sure there would be a lot of skepticism at that time.... but as soon as equations are derived and simulations ran to confirm the theorized system-balancing symmetry between pressing the 'T' key and the 'R' key, it should be more or less accepted as a fact


no doubt, this would still take several years (maybe decades).... and only as long as the project doesn't get its fundings cut by some political whim


the brings your the "T" key - for those who needn't wait!