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> It's going to be awesome either way. That might be a better definition of science than “It’s like messing around, but taking notes.” I love how everyone quo
by bertil 6y ago
> It's going to be awesome either way.
That might be a better definition of science than “It’s like messing around, but taking notes.”
I love how everyone quotes it, and SpaceX deserves the credit for making that attitude popular. But what really makes it possible is cheap cameras — so when watching a blast that is likely destroying every living thing and destroying every piece of electronic in its way, I’ll be cheering for GoPro too.
- NortySpock 6y agoI think the increased telemetry ("3000 channels" per the Falcon 9 AMOS-6 explosion; who knows what Starship will have) and the ease nowadays with which one could store the data on an SD card tucked inside every multiply-redundant avionics box, makes it much more likely you'll be able to pinpoint the cause of an error even after a catastrophic explosion. Hence enabling SpaceX to fail-fast with confidence that they will be able to find the problem from the data and fix it. Plus apparently they're relatively cheap to build, that just makes the test even cheaper. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/spacex-with-a-manifest-of-70-missions-vows-to-safely-return-to-flight/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/spacex-with-a-manife...
- elteto 6y agoIf you care about telemetry then you can’t store it, you have to beam it back. And SD cards are a nightmare from a reliability standpoint. Nobody (in this context) would do that.
- NortySpock 6y agohttps://www.vice.com/en/article/pga9dk/what-its-like-to-find-a-spacex-rocket-washed-up-on-a-tropical-beach https://www.vice.com/en/article/pga9dk/what-its-like-to-find... They at least used SD cards in GoPro cameras on fairings. I admit I cannot authoritatively speak to what they are using for telemetry storage if they decided to go that way.
- jsjohnst 6y agoSD card connections are unreliable in an environment with heavy vibrations (something you’d expect with a rocket). For something like a GoPro, that might be acceptable to SpaceX, but for critical telemetry data, I highly doubt it as GP stated.
- aspiegel 6y agoSpaceX is hiring software engineers to build the system that will ingest telemetry from Starship, and much more. Apply here https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/4943043002?gh_jid=4943043002 https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/4943043002?gh_jid=4...