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It must be such a rush to know that your instruments which were tested only locally in various simulated environments work perfectly in the environment in real
by polishdude20 5y ago
It must be such a rush to know that your instruments which were tested only locally in various simulated environments work perfectly in the environment in real life.
I had this sort of feeling when working on a model rocket with a complicated flight computer. I did months of simulations, testing, planning , rereading the code and getting it ready. Once I pressed the launch button, all that work culminated into it working or not working and trusting that those days and nights of testing were enough.
- Aperocky 5y agoThere's the other and more common strategy in terms of software development and that is deploying a large amount of iterations and/or products and fix what's broken. Elon Musk applied that successfully to rocketry. It must be nice to know if this one didn't work you're going to launch the next one in a few weeks...
- polishdude20 5y agoOh for sure, if you've got the money to break things at the hobby level :)
- Aperocky 5y agoSpaceX is profitable, they are profitable because they broke lots of things before it actually worked. This is a valid strategy.
- polishdude20 5y agoNo doubt. At the hobby level, doing this as a hobby, profit isn't a thing I'm going for.