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Why do we use computers to help planes fly?

Aircraft manufacturer Airbus recently faced scrutiny after a software error caused a JetBlue flight to lose altitude and make an emergency landing. Nearly 6,000 ...
Ars Technica

Humanity’s most distant space probe jeopardized by computer glitch

Voyager 1 is still alive out there, barreling into the cosmos more than 15 billion miles away. However, a computer problem has kept the mission’s loyal support team in Southern California from knowing ...
SpaceNews

SpaceDev’s New Miniature Flight Computer

The SpaceDev Miniature Flight Computer (MFC) is the perfect high performance 300 million instructions per second (MIPS) general-purpose flight computer for a wide variety of space vehicles. It is cost ...
Seeking Alpha

Palladyne AI Achieves Breakthrough Flight Milestone With First Flight of IntelliSwarm: Palladyne AI’s SwarmOS Autonomous Swarming Software Integrated Into Its BRAIN X2 Flight ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Palladyne AI Corp. (PDYN) (NASDAQ: PDYN and PDYNW) (“Palladyne AI”), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered ...
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Did This Qantas Flight Computer Have a Mind of its Own?

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Initial investigation into the loss of control on Qantas Flight 72 reveals a disturbing theory: the plane's fly-by-wire system may have sent rogue ...