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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 9 points 2 years ago

I mean there is something to be said for KISS (keep it simple stupid) principles. Especially in an environment that is very unforgiving. In fact in SCUBA there is even a rebreather named as such [1].

And something like an xbox controller is both well engineered and quite intuitive. That said...you are going to want redundancy.

For example I believe SpaceX Dragon uses largely off the shelf computers running linux [2], and not the older rad hardened versions many other space programs require. That said...they also setup them as a to work in triplicate to ensure quorum on the data validity and then have a backup set fo computer in case they cant get quorum out of the primary.

[1] https://www.kissrebreathers.com/

[2] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer-and-software-is-used-by-the-falcon-9