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To: Red Badger

When you think about it... getting all the software bugs worked out before a critical launch date could become impossible. So re-programming during the mission has to be an option. Cuz you never know.


27 posted on 04/13/2021 12:50:50 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

It’s actually pretty standard. They work on the software all the way through the flight to Mars. There’s no reason to have the software all done before launch, that just loses months of dev time. Most of these things don’t get the mission software until it’s needed, landing sequence gets transmitted as it’s getting there, rover movement software won’t get loaded until after it lands. And then there’s always tweaks. Anything they look at and think “that could do better” they work it.


30 posted on 04/13/2021 12:57:03 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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