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Engineering
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ORBIS 4.2: what shipped and what slipped
The May release notes, plus the two things we said would be in it and are not.
Read post →Why our API has a boring deprecation policy
36 months of support and no breaking changes within a major version. The policy is dull and that is the entire value.
Read post →Svalgrund: building a ground station where nothing else is
Notes from commissioning an unstaffed X-band downlink node 200 km inside the Arctic Circle.
Read post →Accessibility is not a compliance exercise
We are taking ORBIS Viewer to WCAG 2.2 AA. Six months in, the surprising part is how much it has improved the product for everyone.
Read post →Why every ORBIS delivery carries a quality report
A pretty picture and a measurement are different things. Here is why we attach an uncertainty budget to every delivery, even when customers do not ask for one.
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