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I guess you imagine the control room is joy-sticking / flipping each individual switch? The processes are automatically executed, but are check-pointed rather
by jvanderbot 5y ago
I guess you imagine the control room is joy-sticking / flipping each individual switch?
The processes are automatically executed, but are check-pointed rather than run end-to-end. This is to make sure partial failures can be detected.
Building the self-sensing and error-recovery logic to support a "level 5" automated unfolding is wasteful of taxpayer money when a few folks can just take a little longer to do it stepwise -- with much less development, hardware, and software cost overall.
- thunderrabbit 5y ago> Building the self-sensing and error-recovery logic to support a "level 5" automated unfolding is wasteful Very true, especially if they tried to do all that the first time. In a way, this stepwise deployment is a test run for a future version that can do it a little bit more automated.
- willis936 5y agoI've worked on a bespoke science experiment not too dissimilar to JWST (though much cheaper). These types of machines never resemble anything like mass produced parts. All of the tooling is custom made for one shot. The next machine will be the same story. What we take forward to the next machine are the lessons learned and technology developed.