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The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

Google TechTalks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Space exploration & spaceflightFunctional programmingTesting, debugging & developer tools

What it is

Ron Garret tells the story of the Remote Agent Experiment on NASA's Deep Space 1, where autonomous software controlled a spacecraft in 1999. He describes debugging Lisp code remotely from millions of miles away.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in Lisp and safety-critical software threads as the definitive firsthand account of the DS1 remote REPL debugging episode.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • first 2012, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Ron Garret talks about DS1, a project in the 90s where a small team used Lisp”

    Talk on a small team using Lisp to debug a spacecraft remotely.

    dmit, 2012-08 · Recommendation · in “NASA Pulls Off 160-Million-Mile Software Patch”

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Topics: lisp, deep space 1, remote debugging, nasa, autonomy

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