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Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft by sitkack on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:32PM (#11602913)
Seems like the kind of thing one would have multiple of, along with voting, it should also contain a kalman filter. The software correcting the rotation should have been run in a tighter feedback loop so that it would stop making the problem worse.

Lots of these subsystems can be tested in a pure software simulator. Esp when it comes to faults.

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Re:Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft by sitkack on Sunday May 01, 2016 @08:34PM (#11608542)
Thinking about it further, the simulator should consume the logs from the existing system and map those logs from existing simulation runs, use a form of compressed sensing and pattern matching to figure out what is occurring just from the logs and previous simulation runs.
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