Python at SpaceX
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu May 20 23:49:45 EDT 2021
https://stackoverflow.blog/tag/software-in-space/
has 4 links to interviews. 2 specifically mention Python.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/11/testing-software-so-its-reliable-enough-for-space/
"Python “is for backend test running, build orchestration, and all our
web servers are python-based. It’s a lot of little scripts and a lot of
big web services. "
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/11/building-a-space-based-isp/
"Starlink software, both in satellites and on the ground, is written
almost exclusively in C++, with some prototyping development in Python."
“For development and test of these algorithms, we have a full-scale
network simulation running in continuous integration on a
high-performance computing cluster. This simulation is capable of
running the C++ production code as well as running against prototype
code written in Python,”
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Terry Jan Reedy
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