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MaxPrefect (October 5, 2008 at 8:45 pm)
Yep, the final redundant computer has never been used.
Paragon0fVirtue (July 13, 2008 at 8:48 pm)
Yeah, Columbia blew up because there was a hole in the left wing because of foam from the external tank hitting it during lift off. Engineers saw it and requested the administration to do something like this, To check the shuttle. They said no because it would be to expensive, and cause further delays. 9000 degree plasma entered the hole during re-entry, causing the landing gear tires to explode and a chair reaction through the orbiter. 7 lives later, lesson finally learned.
arroy624 (April 11, 2008 at 5:08 pm)
lol funny to see it's orbiting at 4 milllion miles... it'll be orbiting jupiter with style...
eccentricellipse (March 26, 2008 at 2:05 am)
Neither. You young'uns seem to forget that the shuttle was orbiting in 1981; four years before Windows ('84) and ten years before Linux ('91).
The STS Orbiter uses a gang of computers capable of voting out malfunctioning computers. The code is in a high level custom language called HAL/S running on IBM AP-101 general-purpose avionic computers.
The STS Orbiter control software is arguably the most 'perfectly bug-free' block of code in existence.
aburakkoi1 (March 24, 2008 at 2:14 pm)
i was talking about about how far up they were, but the distance they would go to orbit the earth is probaly around four million miles
aburakkoi1 (March 24, 2008 at 2:12 pm)
it's cause theres like one atom per cibic meter in spac so theres virtually no friction
pilot7893 (March 23, 2008 at 9:38 pm)
Think how big Earth is, and think how many 90 min orbits they would do in a week, and it does seem likely
aburakkoi1 (March 22, 2008 at 7:59 pm)
not a chance it four million miles
VTXnME (March 22, 2008 at 5:16 pm)
No friction, nothing to slow it down.
VTXnME (March 22, 2008 at 5:15 pm)
I think they are up 100 some miles above the earth. That's pretty far up :^) |
