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From: Adam Jensen <hanzer@riseup.net>
Subject: Re: Failure of the Schiaparelli lander: A software problem?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 06:29:28 -0400
Date: 2016-10-31T06:29:28-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nv76dg$ou0$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nv46tv$6ab$1@dont-email.me>

On 10/30/2016 03:19 AM, Dirk Craeynest wrote:
> FYI, in a press release [1] earlier this year, AdaCore wrote:
> 
>   Thales Alenia Space implemented in Ada two ExoMars On-Board Software
>   (OBSW) components: one for the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on an ERC32
>   target, and one for the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator
>   Module (EDM) on a LEON2 target.
> 
> So there already was (at least some) Ada software on the Schiaparelli
> lander.  The above quote seems to suggest that all software on the
> lander was in Ada, as the latter is named as one of the two components
> implemented in Ada...
> 
> Maybe someone from AdaCore or Thales on CLA can tell us more?
> 
> [1] http://www.adacore.com/press/ada-on-board-gnat-pro-helps-exomars-get-to-the-red-planet/

Supposition: what if having people say the same thing repeatedly in a
variety of verbose ways isn't the best way to insure that:

a) they understand what they are saying, and
b) what they are saying is correct.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-31 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-29 16:45 Failure of the Schiaparelli lander: A software problem? Peter Chapin
2016-10-29 17:02 ` Simon Wright
2016-10-30  7:19 ` Dirk Craeynest
2016-10-31  1:35   ` R. B. Love
2016-10-31  6:48     ` Dirk Craeynest
2016-11-01  3:16       ` R. B. Love
2016-10-31 10:29   ` Adam Jensen [this message]
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