I have run it on a few hundred systems with Cortex R5 (used in a production context so demonstrated to be stable over tens of thousands of hours).
At that time there was a reference port for the Hercules development board available on-line. It was mostly working straight out of the box. I just had to fix a few issues with the Halcogen generated files (since then, TI has fixed the bugs), configure the lwIP options (to have DHCP and only use UDP). Since then (7 years ago), I have not touched the code once.
A record for jet order should provide some job safety over the next few years (and possibly hiring if they increase their output instead of just adding to a longer backlog) for people working on the manufacturing side of Airbus.
But on the development side, the situation is less clear. There is no major development project anymore since A350 is in operation. And there are no signs yet of an upcoming major program based on their research activities for hydrogen-powered of more electric airliners.
So there could still be layoffs or downsizing due to hiring less engineers than the ones that go to retirement.
From what I read in the PDF, the analysis is very debatable (with The Register putting forward mostly the nonsensical allegations).
Disclosure: I work on satellite design and in the recent years on a program that is part of the NewSpace. I have an intimate knowledge of how what I help design works but a limited knowledge of what others may be doing.
A couple of insights:
* I started working on satellites in a large industrial group where, while not being handled by world class cybersecurity experts, secure communications with the satellites rely on a sane use of proven encryption protocols
* I am not sure when this level of security became standard and what was done to secure the satellites before hardware-level encryption with modern algorithms became available
* I was astounded when I discovered the level of casualness for everything related to security on scientific satellite projects, with even recent projects led by major agencies considering that always encrypting command and monitoring is overkill
And my main grip is that the study relies on asking universities that have the lowest bar in terms of caring about security (they already struggle enough to build a working thing) and then extrapolating from a specious argument that it must be worse on commercial spacecrafts.
> One surprising result was that the larger the satellite, the more vulnerable it was. Larger machinery typically used more commercial off-the-shelf components and was thus more vulnerable since the code base was public, whereas smaller CubeSats tended to use custom code.
Also
> a satellite should be designed so that TCs do not compromise the satellite’s stability without further validation
Says who ? What validation ? If an operator had the right to have a telecommand sent to the satellite, who or what aboard the satellite should decide if this telecommand was legitimate.
From experience, there is a myriad of things that you think are usually not a good idea to make your satellite do and then, when you need it as a workaround or mitigation for an unexpected condition, you are happy you have not implemented a list of authorized actions that is too constrained.
PS: It reminds me of the guy that was able to capture the GPS coordinates of an airplane broadcasted to the In-Flight Entertainment systems and got a lot of press coverage by extrapolating that it meant he could also take control of the aircraft from his seat in the cabin.
It has been for quite some time (at least it was already dragging this reputation for the EU constitution referendum in 2005).
To the point that the schematic vision for EU organization is the EU parliament expected to represent EU citizens vs. the EU commission expected to defend private interests.
And Ursula von der Leyen has a horrendous track record when it comes to doing anything remotely positive. But having Margrethe Vestager defend this appointment was more of a letdown.
That is disingenuous. The message you pointed to says "4-4.5 years from when we order material" which is comparing the manufacturing of an assembled item with the full length of the supply chain.
> The study, from Russian researchers [...] They would deorbit after 1-3 months [...] But it gets a little fuzzy in the income estimates.
Even assuming that this could be done once or twice for some stupid novelty effect stunt, there is no way in hell that this can become a viable business practice.
In France I think the price of electricity for professionals has been multiplied by five in the past few months. The price of electricity for residential customers and small businesses has only increased by 5% because the French state and EDF are shouldering the difference.
> imagine if a company becomes so dominant that little competition exists and little interest exists to create competition
This is the core of Softbank / Vision Fund investing thesis. The current events seem to show that this is not so easy to achieve even with tens (hundreds ?) of billions to burn in the process.
If they run out of steam, a lot of companies will have been over-bloated and then run to the ground in the process, but this will not have caused any new monopoly.
> The cost of tickets will vary from €3 to €10 depending on the season.
So there will barely be an entry fee for people coming for the day too. For a measure targeting people coming from thousands of kilometers away, I do not see how this is even going to make a dent in the tourist influx.
Looking for relatively similar cases like Machu Picchu or Tanzania national parks, I would have expected a fee between 50$ and 100$ to curb the tourism.
Amsterdam seems to have gotten better thanks to the pandemic. I go there on a regular basis to visit relatives with kids so I mostly visit parks and playgrounds and the drastic reduction of "bachelor party" type of tourists (coming for alcohol, drugs and prostitutes) has made the city a lot more pleasant to wander around.
Residents seem to have come to the same realization as it looks like they are going to outlaw selling drugs to tourists and move the red light district out of the city.
That being said, as long as there is still the museum/culture tourism and the many wealthy expatriates coming for the quality of life, I do not see the prices dropping back enough to make a difference for regular/local people.
My high school had an electronics training course that was building decoders as a practical work.
It was good training for supply chain management and manufacturing. And they were selling them (illegally, obviously) and sharing the revenue between students and teachers.
Over the years and hundreds of decoders sold, they probably contributed to a significant loss of revenue for Canal+ in my hometown.
I do not think the message is "here's another bad thing".
It is underlining that lots of people are focusing on conflicts between scooters, bikes and pedestrian have to use walkable areas and fringe of streets/roads for moving and parking.
But overlooking that probably 90% of the space is dedicated to cars (driving and parking) and that is not up for debate.
I have an old memory of my grandmother being scolded because she only wanted to take the paper of the guy she wanted to vote for. And the assessors at my local voting place usually complain when people pick only one paper and want to bypass the voting booth (but it is not like they will come to blows over this).
At that time there was a reference port for the Hercules development board available on-line. It was mostly working straight out of the box. I just had to fix a few issues with the Halcogen generated files (since then, TI has fixed the bugs), configure the lwIP options (to have DHCP and only use UDP). Since then (7 years ago), I have not touched the code once.