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It's not a good or bad thing. It's a process. Remote instruments (which is essentially what these missions are) don't need all that much compute to turn and fac
by jvanderbot 6y ago
It's not a good or bad thing. It's a process. Remote instruments (which is essentially what these missions are) don't need all that much compute to turn and face a target and acquire an image. It'd be nice to have more, but it's not strictly necessary.
Also, spacecraft a little distributed systems. There are _lots more_ processors on these things. The instruments and mechanisms all have their own processors, from what I see ... which is limited.
Don't think too hard about how Percy is self-driving on its limited compute, that will make your head hurt to think about trying to make that work.