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I was standing next to one of the engineers who wrote the software for the landing while we were watching on the big screen at Twitter. A few moments after it l
by spullara 8y ago
I was standing next to one of the engineers who wrote the software for the landing while we were watching on the big screen at Twitter. A few moments after it landed he announced that his code worked and was being deleted to make room for surface operations code.
- dylan604 8y agoThat's one of those cool things that never gets thought about outside the people directly involved. "Why keep the code required for landing readily available permanently, since it'll never ever need it again." That's one of the aspects that I enjoy about programming Arduino devices. I'm so spoiled to essentially unlimited memory on desktop/laptops (in comparison) that writing code to fit into extremely limited finite amounts of memory becomes challenging in a fun way.
- jcims 8y agoI always wonder if there was any video released of the sky crane tests on Earth. I have to imagine they were done at some point, but I never saw it.