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by jcims 1833 days ago
It seems like the issue wasn’t that there was a dropped frame, it’s that the time slot for that frame got filled by the next frame, then every subsequent frame was off by one resulting in a persistent timestamp offset of the vision data from reality for the remainder of the flight.

I didn’t read into it too much so I may not have all the details right, but I think this is the gist of it.

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That would be a straight-up, avoidable software/hardware bug: The incoming timestamp is incorrect, and garbage in is garbage out.

That would make me curious how the timestamp error occurred: software, hardware? Camera or Navigation code? I assume they have very high standards, what was the process failure point?

Or timezone bug! Always hard to test.