NASA didn't build this, Lockheed Martin and their subcontractors did. Articles and headlines like this make people think that NASA does a lot more than they actually do. This is like a CEO claiming credit for everything a company does.

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voodoo_child 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nice “well, actually”. I’m sure Lockheed were building this quad-redundant, radiation-hardened PowerPC that costs millions of dollars and communicates via Time-Triggered Ethernet anyway, whether NASA needed one or not.

	▲	kube-system 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Probably, if it already wasn’t developed for DoD. For example, the OS it seems to be running is integrity 178. https://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity_178_s... Aerospace tech is not entirely bespoke anymore, plenty of the foundational tech is off the shelf. Historically, the main difference between ICBM tech and human spaceflight tech is the payload and reentry system.
	▲	y1n0 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is the equivalent of prompt engineering.

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adrian_b 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lockheed Martin and their subcontractors did the implementation.

We do not know how much of the high-level architecture of the system has been specified by NASA and how much by Lockheed Martin.

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y1n0 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I do.

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professorseth 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Are you interested in sharing more details to make your claim more believable?

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jakeinspace 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

True, but BFS was mainly done in-house. Source: my best friend and I worked on some parts of it.

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therobots927 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lockheed Martin also builds F-35s that Israel uses to slaughter children. If you’re going to give them credit for everything, don’t forget to give them credit for that.

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colechristensen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Eh, in these kinds of subcontractor relationships there is a lot of work and communication on both sides of the table.

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Sebguer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

will nobody think of the megacorps!!!