The Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Dragon are very advanced spacecrafts. So that got me thinking: what is powering these vehicles?

In this video we'll take a look at what programming languages, operating systems, tools and hardware SpaceX uses to get these vehicles into orbit around the around.

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🎯Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:13 Challenges in space
0:53 Bit flips (due to radiation)
2:57 Radiation hardening: redundant flight computers
5:02 NASA's radiation requirements
5:55 How SpaceX chooses hardware & software to use
6:55 Use of software: Linux, C++, LabView, ...
8:17 Logging & monitoring of vehicles
8:48 Continuous Integration (CI / CD)
9:05 Classified & Outro

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