They should have moved to the cloud. /ducks
This is a truly stellar wit.
But in all honesty, how would an internet across the solar system work?
NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
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Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#12They should have moved to the cloud. /ducks
Nah, they went for heavenly computing instead
Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#13They should have moved to the cloud. /ducks
AWS Lens: giant satellite telescope control as a service!
Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#14pushes up glasses I would watch the heck out of a Twitch stream of their debugging/brainstorming sessions. I always loved the movie Apollo 13 , especially the technical troubleshooting parts.
Debugging on a computer that is down is not a very exciting process.
Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#15The cause of the failure is most likely tin whiskers [1] or radiation. [1] https://nepp.nasa.gov/WHISKER/background/index.htm .
Is there evidence of either yet? I’m not sure how you get from “potential” failure mode to “most likely”
Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#16They should have moved to the cloud. /ducks
This is a truly stellar wit. But in all honesty, how would an internet across the solar system work?
I’d it can work over carrier pigeon [1], it can work over long distance radio.
Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#17I know that, at different times, NASA has used Forth[1] and Lisp[2] in some of their space applications. Both of these languages offer REPLs that generally accelerate the debugging process, and while your "average" Lisp might be unsuitable for hard real-time applications (due to the presence of a garbage collector, usually without the hard real-time constraints that you can get out of garbage collectors with extreme effort), I wonder if they have some equivalently interactive system on-board the Hubble.
> Most of Hubble's components have redundant back-ups, so once scientists figure out the specific component that's causing the computer problem, they can remotely switch over to its back-up part.
Wait, then why don't they just switch over each component in turn? The "divide and conquer" debugging strategy.
Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#18Have they tried turning it off and on again ?
Last I heard, it's not running any version of Windows.
Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#19pushes up glasses I would watch the heck out of a Twitch stream of their debugging/brainstorming sessions. I always loved the movie Apollo 13 , especially the technical troubleshooting parts.
Debugging on a computer that is down is not a very exciting process.
I'll settle for the post-mortem
Re: NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
#20For pure comedic value:
Someone deployed a K8s cluster on hubble and now its lost DNS because the master nodes connected to a starlink satellite