Japan Controls Rocket Launch With Just 8 People and 2 Laptops

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 14, 2013 @04:45AM from the can't-even-make-a-baseball-team-out-of-that dept.

SpaceGhost writes "Sky News reports that the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has launched an orbital telescope on a new generation rocket from the Uchinoura Space Centre in Kagoshima, in southwestern Japan. The Epsilon rocket uses an onboard AI for autonomous launch checks by the rocket itself (launch video). A product of renewed focus on reducing costs, the new vehicle required two laptops and a launch team of eight, compared to the 150 people needed to launch the previous platform, the M-5. Because of the reduced launch team and ease of construction, production and launch costs of the Epsilon are roughly half that of the M-5. The payload, a SPRINT-A telescope, is designed for planetary observation."

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my buddy's step-mother makes $83 an hour on the co by Carol_Stanfield · 2013-09-14 07:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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