My Father-In-Law’s Been Slashdotted

I’ve been meaning to write a post about this, but it looks like slashdot beat me to it. Meg’s Dad is part of the team working on the STeReO project. A few weeks ago they had a “Family Day” and Meg and I got to go down to APL and see the satellites before they were prepped for launch. Meg’s dad has been doing the autonomy testing. His job was to simulate breaking parts of the satellite, or knocking the satellite out of alignment, and seeing how well the onboard AI can figure out where the Sun is, then figure out where the Earth is and then re-establish radio communications with Australia, or a number of other listening posts. Crazy cool geeky stuff.

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