Timeline for Why are spacecraft computers obsolete at launch?
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| Sep 25, 2016 at 22:10 | comment | added | Adam Wuerl | The old link is dead and Agile Aerospace has moved. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 14:02 | comment | added | Adam Wuerl | For what it's worth, despite these reasons above I do think a paradigm shift is coming precisely because advances in avionics are making small spacecraft more powerful and affordable, which because of their size and complexity are cheaper and quicker to produce and mitigate many of the issues above. In fact, I wrote a whole post about Agile Aerospace. | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 13:56 | history | edited | Adam Wuerl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added section on paperwork
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| Jul 24, 2013 at 12:34 | comment | added | robguinness | And perhaps the biggest reason of all: PAPERWORK! It takes years and mountains of paperwork to get a particular piece of hardware "space-qualified". By the time that product is space-qualified, the related consumer technology has raced lightyears ahead... | |
| Jul 24, 2013 at 7:26 | history | edited | Adam Wuerl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added power consumption as a reason.
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| Jul 21, 2013 at 4:42 | comment | added | Chad | i think you missed a big one in power consumption more powerful chips use more power. | |
| S Jul 21, 2013 at 0:24 | history | suggested | tshepang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
small improvements
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| Jul 19, 2013 at 15:37 | vote | accept | GreenMatt | ||
| Jul 19, 2013 at 5:32 | history | answered | Adam Wuerl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |