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That's weird. Why would they even need date logic in the flight software?
by skoob 17y ago
That's weird. Why would they even need date logic in the flight software?
- sophacles 17y agoIt probably has something to do with where to point the thing during re-entry. The shuttle would need to be able to land on different days in case something went wrong. Actually, the date stuff is probably used for all sorts of orbital calculations.
- kjhgfvgbjnm 17y agoIt doesn't - but can you guarantee that everything it is talking to doesn't also change? A GPS string might erroneously say it's day 367 or be one character too long because it printed 20010 or a telemetry link might ask for 4million readings because it calculated "-1"