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		themafia 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant compute... The GNC loop runs several times per second. The desired output will consequently be increased by the working computers to achieve the target. The computer does not "dead reckon" anything. Travelling through Max-Q in Earth atmosphere on ascent is far more dangerous.

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JumpCrisscross 6 days ago | [–]

> Travelling through Max-Q in Earth atmosphere on ascent is far more dangerous

Fair enough. I don't know enough about Orion's architecture to guess at propellant reserves, and how life-or-death each burn actually is.

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