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Cool post. I'd be interested in seeing models likes this deployed to the satellites themselves. Typically, data gathered from satellites needs to wait for the satellite to do a pas…

I think it's highly dependent on the significance of the memento. I have physical credentials I received for a major athletic event I competed in, and never in my life would I cons…

It’s likely they know someone they’ve effectively already offered the job to, but equal opportunity laws require a job posting to be made. So while they are technically “hiring”, t…

Blue Origin's New Glenn achieves successful booster recovery and payload to orbit delivery. Initially this is seen as huge win and they emerge as potential challengers to SpaceX, h…

FSW development is done by a different team than mine but I believe it's just managed through gitlab. Releases are done through tags, and any updates that need to be made have tick…

There are faults IDs that trip if certain telemetry goes outside of a normal range. If a safemode were to occur, we would investigate which faults tripped and at what time, and use…

Having discussed this same question with the more experienced members of my team, the only conclusion I can draw is that the customer (US Government) is incredibly risk averse. Any…

Author here: I should clarify the satellite is not running Windows. Instead, it’s running its own custom OS written in C called Flight Software (FSW) specifically designed for the …

Exoplanet detection is a very precise measurement. The two main methods we have (doppler shift of host star from the planet's orbit and the transit of the planet across the star) a…