Questions tagged [computing]
Questions about the computation of problems for space exploration (whether on board or on the ground), especially with electronic devices like computers
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What are the general properties and specs for JWST's onboard data and image processing capabilities?
Answers and comments on What is the data storage capabilities onboard the James Webb Telescope? which reference the James Webb Space Telescope User Documentation item JWST Solid State Recorder mention ...
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Having deep space probes use AI to decide where to point their cameras?
With New Horizons on final approach to Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) it has been stated that some or all of the images returned may end up being blank due to the camera being pointed incorrectly because of ...
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HPE's demo HPC system; why choose optical and not copper interconnects because of magnetic fields and radiation?
An article in The Next Platform, One Small Step Toward Supercomputers in Space describes a small High Performance Computing system (HPC) built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), to be brought to the ...
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CesiumJS: Hayabusa 2 location w.r.t Earth
Given these coordinates w.r.t Sun:
Hayabusa:
x = 86014493
y = 112689997
z = 54295960
Earth:
x = 82241037
y = 112748971
z = 48876281
How do I calculate Hayabusa coordinates w.r.t Earth center?
I ...
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Space shuttle digital signal processor (DSP): floating point or fixed point?
Digital signal processors can represent irrational numbers using fixed-point or floating-point data types.
Fixed point means fixed number of decimal places, and floating point means floating number of ...
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Examples of both hardware and software GNSS recievers
I am writing an essay titled: Critically evaluate the positional fixing capabilities of current smartphone technologies for real world GIS data collection
I am wanting examples of both hardware and ...
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What are all the ways that FPGAs are used in the Flying Laptop spacecraft?
In the eoPortal's spacecraft Mission profile for the Flying Laptop, the term FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) appears 12 times, including the paragraph below. I'm still having trouble ...