Digital technology is for sure an important component. DevOps is the practice allowing reducing time to market of digital products and increasing their quality.
Now, is there a special, specific branch of DevOps in the space exploration industry (e.g. with much more influence from system engineering), or not?
An update: according to this recent report, as 2019 SpaceX has had 50 software engineers following DevOps principles doing work of roughly 2500 to serve all vehicles AND custom enterprise systems.