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Re:The ancient technology keeping space missions alive by weinzierl on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:02PM (#37182742)
The article is bad but the premise is not wrong. The things that fly and a lot of the things that stay on the ground are analyzed with NASTRAN whose solver kernel dates back to 1964. At its heart it is still the old FORTRAN code because reproducibility is king.
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