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Why would it need to be upgraded? Does the math of calculating trajectories and timing change that often?
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Why would it need to be upgraded? Does the math of calculating trajectories and timing change that often?
- dekhn 5y agoNo, those don't really change (there might be data updates to include newly discovered celestial objects). But any ship that operates in space will eventually need some custom work and some of that would need to be merged back into mainline or maintained as a patch. It would be necessary to upgrade if, for example, new devices were installed in the ship, which were developed after the original ship firmware was installed. All of this is already a problem, for example for the US Navy, https://news.usni.org/2021/04/12/navy-software-factory-the-forge-wants-to-reshape-how-ships-get-upgraded https://news.usni.org/2021/04/12/navy-software-factory-the-f...