Episode 3: There's A Traitor Among Us – Defending against Byzantine Faults

Produced by Dr. Robert Hodson, NASA Avionics Technical Fellow. Voice generated by AI.

Spacecraft computers must handle Byzantine faults, where components can send conflicting or false data, by using fault-tolerant architectures like voting systems and self-checking pairs to ensure consensus and safety; NASA's Artemis program demonstrates these methods in practice, with the SLS rocket using voting and the Orion capsule using self-checking pairs to protect astronauts