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This isn't as crazy as you think, it makes sense for scientific spacecraft which are intended to be controlled by non-engineers. Hubble Space Telescope can als
by orbital-decay 4y ago
This isn't as crazy as you think, it makes sense for scientific spacecraft which are intended to be controlled by non-engineers.
Hubble Space Telescope can also be controlled with a custom DSL directly by researchers, with the only difference being the sandbox location - it's compiled and verified on Earth before being sent to the spacecraft. With JWST, they wanted to modernize things and make scripting more accessible. Of course now the variant they use (ScriptEase) is two decades old already.