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Software & hardware in Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Dragon

The Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Dragon are very advanced spacecrafts. So that got me thinking: what is powering these vehicles?

In this video we'll take a look at what programming languages, operating systems, tools and hardware SpaceX uses to get these vehicles into orbit around the around.

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