so they cross strapped a payload laser sensor to use for attitude/ranging control because the laser range finders didn't remove its hardware interlock?
I’m amazed they had performance data of the LIDAR package useful for calibrating into attitude and range finding processing? And they updated the software in a few hours to use that new data into the navigation models? That is crackerjack software programming; I would guess it’s a higher level language onboard than ada to allow such rapid prototyping and deployment?
I bet that they had it already developed and validated and just needed to enable it, either by flicking a config or updating to a different build with the other lidar enabled.
I’m amazed they had performance data of the LIDAR package useful for calibrating into attitude and range finding processing? And they updated the software in a few hours to use that new data into the navigation models? That is crackerjack software programming; I would guess it’s a higher level language onboard than ada to allow such rapid prototyping and deployment?