Inside mission control

It's going to take them 5-6 days to get 238000 miles to the moon, cooped up in a tin can; the whole mission is 10 days. A very brave bunch of guys and gals, they are much braver than me! Good luck to them! I remember watching it the first time round when I was a kid, and of course I was given a big airfix kit apollo rocket to build. 😁

There is an interesting backstory in the advanced closed-cycle design of russian rocket engines and how that tech was saved by some smart engineers and recovered after the end of the cold war. I believe the same tech eventually made it's way into modern rocket engines.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMbl_ofF3AM

I'm wondering if IBM designed the equivalent to the LVDC in the modern rocket. This was state of the art electronics for the late '60's, they were doing surface mount, 12-layer PTH boards even back then.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ggqY7vnAw

And I'm wondering if the astronauts will still be using thinkpads in the spacecraft! Although perhaps today it will be something made in the US like framework. :)

Actually it seems frameworks are made in taiwan... but at least it's a US company.
allamerican.org

Where Are Framework Laptops Made? - AllAmerican.org

We did the research to find out where Framework laptops are made. Are they made in the USA? Here is our verdict.
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It's pretty sad that they can't find a single US-manufactured laptop. Of course that goes for the UK too.
 
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ


And if you want to know more about hardware designed to work long time in radiation dense settings, the mars rover is still at it. Also some interesting view.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTys3VzCe7o


And, Alain De Vos , You get the view the mission control gets. Would you like to see the missile from the inside? I know ESA has some engines with transparent parts so you can watch the burn process from the outside, but I'd rather not be that close.
 
If we are talking about long-term rad-hard computer system design....
hackaday.com

The Computers Of Voyager

After more than four decades in space and having traveled a combined 44 billion kilometers, it’s no secret that the Voyager spacecraft are closing in on the end of their extended interstellar…
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Incredible piece of work.. :)
 
blackbird9 said:
Incredible piece of work.. :)
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I'd imagine the structural size of elements in there is so wide that radiation does not matter much. Like we say, "mechanics milled from a massive block"
blackbird9 said:
Those transparent parts had better have a pretty high melting point!
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They have. Once they had a sonic resonance wave moving around the chamber and when it aligned with the edge - Well, an engine test place is not where you want to hear someone yelling "Everyone, DUCK!"
 
Crivens said:
I'd imagine the structural size of elements in there is so wide that radiation does not matter much. Like we say, "mechanics milled from a massive block"
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I guess that's the "if in doubt, use brute force" approach. The old pre-victorian engineers did the same thing when they first started working with cast iron in place of wood, they over-engineered everything.
 
Alain De Vos said:
Internet is flooded with videos & pictures named inside mission control.
& then you see the outside of a rocket.
He guys, i would call this clickbait.
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NASA is replacing the FreeBSD rc.d system of the Apollo 13 rocket with a modern Houston SystemD Mission Control Plane. This setup requires an etcd link to the satellite constellation. In case Tom Hanks signals "Houston we have a problem", the system is designed to destroy the spacecraft and relaunch a new one. :-)
 
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