"Good news" -- Spirit responds in 'cripple mode'

George William Herbert wrote:

jimmydevice wrote:
Funny how they call that "low cost" and yet one of those boards will
set you back a few million.

How do you know that the board is "several million"?
That quote sounds a bit speculative.

That's higher than the numbers I saw, but it was seven figures.

I designed
bios for carrier class systems and the system boards
were mever over 10K. I can't see testing and rad-hardening
adding more that 10X to the price. 2 Mil? Really??? That's
200 times the price of a highly tested, six nines system.

You have an engineering division producing custom boards,
processors, other chips. To space rated specs.

The product volume is, roughly, one flightset per year.

You work out the numbers...

Why is NASA buying from BAE? That STINKS! Note to self, Write congress
and call press.

It was originally a Lockheed division; they sold it to BAE.

I believe they're physically located in the US, however.
Manassas, Virginia, to be precise.

-george william herbert


Doesn't anyone realize or remember that the low cost of
modern electronics is because they are mass-produced and
sold by the millions to consumers?

Making a few specially designed and radiation resistant
computer and associated electronic equipment is
quite expensive.

Mike Walsh