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This is what make remote debugging possible. It is impossible to do interactive remote debugging over a ultra low bandwidth link. If everything have static address and deterministic static, you can have a exact copy on ground and debug there.
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varjag • last Monday at 8:23 AM
Interactive debugging is apparently possible and was reportedly done on Deep Space One mission. One of developers involved frequents HN I believe.
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> If everything have static address and deterministic static, you can have a exact copy on ground and debug there.
You can also have deterministic dynamic - the satellite could transmit its dynamic state (a few bits signifying which memory cells failed) and then you proceed deterministically on the ground.