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ULA employee "critiques" Starship architecture (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Because it is based on obsolete technology. You wouldn't want to build a flight computer with hard-wired (as in literal wires) software, would you? A lot of it would also have to be reverse engineered, to the point where you might as well build a new vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You wouldn’t want to build a flight computer with hard-wired (as in literal wires) software

We can use an FPGA for that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The software was the thing that was in the wires, not I/O.

The wires would be replaced by FLASH memory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Wouldn't they use a MROM or something instead, because flash memory can be quite volatile in the extreme conditions?