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Darrel Raines

Darrel Raines

Orion Flight Software System Manager

Houston, Texas, United States

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Darrel is currently the Orion Flight Software System Manager at NASA, Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He has over 40 years experience in Commercial, Department of Defense, and NASA aircraft/spacecraft software. He has worked on software for the F-16, OV-1, AHIP, Space Station, Space Shuttle, and the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion). He has worked with embedded software control systems his whole career.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Government, Social Sector & Education

Topics

  • Software Deveopment
  • Software Design
  • Software Engineering Management
  • Software Engineering
  • Software testing
  • Aerospace
  • space exploration

Contrasting Embedded Software Development for the Space Shuttle and the Orion MPCV

A 45 Year Retrospective on How Software is Created, Tested, and Flown in Spacecraft.

Topics to be covered:
1) How software development has changed over the years
2) How software development is the same 45 years on
3) The importance of testing at various integration levels
4) What we learn from disasters and near-misses
5) Why spacecraft software has to be "better" than other embedded software
6) The future of embedded software as it relates to human-rated spacecraft
7) Pictures, videos and other interesting tidbits of Shuttle and Orion flights
8) Questions answered

NDC TechTown 2024 Sessionize Event

September 2024 Kongsberg, Norway

Darrel Raines

Orion Flight Software System Manager

Houston, Texas, United States

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