That’s the topic of the talk coming up from Dennis Wingo at the Improving Space Operations Workshop. I follow him.
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That’s the topic of the talk coming up from Dennis Wingo at the Improving Space Operations Workshop. I follow him.
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I am very interested in this topic.
Back in the 90s, I worked on some robotic maintenance concepts for a lunar base. One idea that was kicked around by logistics was to have essentially 2 major electronic components, that would be very similar in design: a compute module and a sensing module. The idea was to reduce the number of spares needed. As FPGAs got more capable, some Mars base work I did later was looking at whether most of the electronics could be done with FPGAs and sensors. So, if the AE-35 failed, you could burn a new gate array and pop it in.
Keeping things simple as a general rule makes them both more reliable and easier to fix. What I don’t understand is why, once a ‘better’ way to do something is found, people consider the old way as undoable when all it is, is less efficient. Completely ignoring that, while it may be less efficient, it may be more practical for a given circumstance.
I couldn’t help but chuckle when the MIT report said the technology to remove excess oxygen didn’t exist and someone remarked, “have they tried candles?”