Meanwhile SpaceX launched 3 in three days (roughly) and nailed their 100th booster recovery. The SLS team needs a win here, their launch better happen on time and perform flawlessly else Elon will take to Twitter. We know how people get backside-hurt over mean tweets...
I was listening to an engineer explain why some car brands are having problems getting computers and newer car brands aren’t. The older brands designed their computers years ago to a different standard of parts. Those older parts had, over time, become something microchip manufacturers had to reset their production lines to make, so they’d do them in big batches and then retool to make the newer, smaller form cell phone style parts. Suddenly, the microcircuit manufacturers could sell all of the newer smaller form circuits they could make. They didn’t have the time or capacity to set up to make the older, larger form parts. Thus, the newer car manufacturers, such as Tesla, that designed with the newer parts were getting the parts they needed. The older manufacturers didn’t want to make the investment and take the risk of designing a new product when the old one worked just fine. Now, those manufacturers have a Delima. Either redesign, which costs time and has many risks, or wait for the small form demand to reduce. It’s a gamble either way.
Scotty Kilmer has one of them fancy OBD gadgets you plug into to diagnose things in a hurry. They ought to get ahold of him to straighten this out.
damn check engine light...
