Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Very strange, You normally can update a software program remotely no? I know a spacecraft is a bit more complex than an iPhone, but even if there are , as suggested , physical buttons to press , the spacecraft is accessible so it should be a relatively simple operation . There must be more to the story.
How about designing, implementing and
testing the changes a liitle bit before sending them into space? The function to undock automatically was there once, but it had been discarded for a reason (load, memory space etc) and you cannot just copy paste a code into such a complex control system and hope for the best. Any change of a running software bears the possibility of failures. Even Boeing would not do this again
