The shape of future machines

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How software is becoming the thing we mean by 'spacecraft.'

In this chapter

  • Software-defined radios, payloads, and avionics
  • Cloud-native mission operations
  • APIs replacing per-mission ground silos
  • Reprogrammable spacecraft and post-launch capability changes
  • Why the bus is becoming infrastructure and the payload is becoming a tenant
  • What this changes for reliability, verification, and security