How NASA could have prevented a $200m crash with Julia's type system

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It’s my first data science-related youtube video. I had some fun making it.

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Maybe they can use Julia now to come up with a time machine and go back to 1999 to prevent the crash? Hopefully the Julia type system can help them take into account for leap seconds and so on :wink:

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Yes it can: GitHub - JuliaAstro/AstroTime.jl: Astronomical time keeping in Julia :wink:

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Certainly wouldn’t the GC in Julia cause more problems in a real time system like this?

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In this case, the issue was not in the on-board software but in the ground segment. Flight dynamics calculations are usually done offline, so no real-time requirements there.

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I am almost sure the calculation were done offline first.