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by timewizard 537 days ago
You can fly to space with a 40ms control loop. It's a surprisingly low accuracy affair especially compared to particle physics. You're more likely capturing some actuator positions and discrete outputs and ensuring that everything sequences and responds to limits correctly, more on the level with an automobile CAN bus capture than it is anything else, and likely less than even 1 gigabyte.

There's likely more data stored in the video files from the cameras that observed the test than test data itself.

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I'm just remembering that the images we got from Doves @ PlanetLab DWARFED the telemetry from the bus.