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New NASA Launch Control Software Late, Millions Over Budget (go.com)
schwit1 writes: The launch control software NASA is writing from scratch for its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is way behind schedule and way over budget. According to ABC News, "Development of this new launch control software is now projected to exceed $207 million, 77 percent above 2012 projections. The software won't be ready until fall 2017, instead of this summer as planned, and important capabilities like automatic failure detection, are being deferred, the audit noted. The system is vital, needed to control pumps, motors, valves and other ground equipment during countdowns and launches, and to monitor data before and during liftoff. NASA decided to write its own computer code to "glue together" existing software products a decade ago -- while space shuttles still were flying and commercial shippers had yet to service the space station. Both delivery companies, SpaceX and Orbital ATK, rely on commercial software, the audit noted."
In other words, even though NASA could have simply purchased already available software that other launch companies were using successfully, the agency decided to write its own. And that decision really didn't come before the arrival of these commercial companies, because when it was made a decade ago that was exactly the time that SpaceX was beginning to build its rocket. This is simply more proof that SLS is nothing more than a pork-laden waste of money designed not to explore space but to generate non-productive jobs in congressional districts.
In other words, even though NASA could have simply purchased already available software that other launch companies were using successfully, the agency decided to write its own. And that decision really didn't come before the arrival of these commercial companies, because when it was made a decade ago that was exactly the time that SpaceX was beginning to build its rocket. This is simply more proof that SLS is nothing more than a pork-laden waste of money designed not to explore space but to generate non-productive jobs in congressional districts.
and your project will go over budget manifold
I am familiar with fuel manifolds and oxidizer manifolds, but where exactly is the budget manifold in a rocket?
Ezekiel 23:20
That last few sentences were really inacceptable.
Could someone edit this?
OK.
"Those last few sentences were really unacceptable".
FTFY. There will be no charge.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
I'm wondering where you buy commercial software to control the hardware support systems for a space launch system that doesn't even exist yet.
Same here. A search on the Google Play store came up empty.
Haters gonna hate. And downmod only to then post as cowards.
You mean, the private enterprise, that introduced:
Those "risk averse" enterprises?
The government has no money of its own — it forces citizens to pay for things. Forces as in "gunpoint". To spent the thus-collected monies on things not necessary for the continuing existence of the state is tyranny. Plain and simple.
What you are trying to say, is that "a little bit of tyranny may be good sometimes"... Statists gonna state.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.