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tom66:
I wonder how much validation you'd have to go through to prove that Chromium is stable when running a JS web app for crucial flight information displays.

I've managed to crash it pretty easily doing fairly normal things.

dr.diesel:

--- Quote from: rdl on June 05, 2020, 07:58:35 pm ---
--- Quote ---They use Chromium and JavaScript for the Dragon 2 flight interface.
--- End quote ---

Wow, so Dragon 2 displays are basically using a web browser.
(if that quote is correct)

--- End quote ---

If optimized and debugged for that particular set of functions, reliability might not be an issue.

dr.diesel:
Reddit answers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/

StillTrying:
How come we heard a splash the moment it touched the water when the TV camera is 3 miles away. :-//

https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-splashdown-smoothly-delivers-nasa-astronauts-back-to-earth

paulca:

--- Quote from: StillTrying on August 02, 2020, 06:59:23 pm ---How come we heard a splash the moment it touched the water when the TV camera is 3 miles away. :-//

https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-splashdown-smoothly-delivers-nasa-astronauts-back-to-earth

--- End quote ---

Em... I checked the SpaceX live stream and on it too is the splash at touch down.  WTF?

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