Software powering Falcon 9 & Dragon - Simply Explained

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 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5faA2MZ6jY