Windows in a shuttle computer is the most disappointingly dumbass thing NASA has done yet. I say yet because if they’ll do something that dumb it clearly needs to have a glass ceiling.
To some readers, even choosing Outlook as a part of a spacecraft’s communications portfolio would seem to be an anomaly. However, it is a standard part of the “Commercial Off-The-Shelf” (COTS) software astronauts use for their day-to-day operations.
To be clear, the spacecraft and primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software. COTS just complements this with a friendly layer, like Windows and Outlook, so astronauts can check schedules, indulge in personal communications, and so on, in a familiar way.
Sounds like Microsoft products are running on the same hardware as critical systems are
If you intentionally misinterpret it like you are trying to lawyer some cracks in the story, then yeah it does.
Seems pretty clear to me from the “…primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software” that they’re separate systems.
Windows in a shuttle computer is the most disappointingly dumbass thing NASA has done yet. I say yet because if they’ll do something that dumb it clearly needs to have a glass ceiling.
It’s a personal device. Nothing related to the mission.
I guess that’s a little better, except that it’s still in there. Old NASA would have never let it on board in any capacity.
Doesn’t seem to be what this article says
Sounds like Microsoft products are running on the same hardware as critical systems are
If you intentionally misinterpret it like you are trying to lawyer some cracks in the story, then yeah it does.
Seems pretty clear to me from the “…primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software” that they’re separate systems.
That’s because the article left it out intentionally. It was on a personal surface pro.
I’m sure it was nothing mission critical.
I hope.
Begging for a blue screen of literal death.
It’s probably not as bad as failing to check you’re operating within the range of component’s proven environmental test limits.
That said, I’d love to see the system test scenarios they use to determine how it performs during an unexpected attack from their own OS provider.