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NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
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Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#62This is simply dope! I know this comment doesn't add value, but still, Pluto is "only" 4.5 billion miles away from sun at its farthest point and it takes 247 years to loop around the sun.
Pluto is 3.7 billion miles away, not "light years". New Horizons probe wouldn't have taken "only" 11 years to reach Pluto otherwise.
Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#63Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#64I don’t understand why we are not sending these off in every direction constantly. The price can’t possibly be that prohibitive considering what we can accomplish with 40 year old technology.
Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
The equivalent of about 4 billion dollars in modern day money for both of them. That, plus waiting for some very opportune launch times so that we can gravity boost off of everything.
Those gravitational boosts are vital. The closest in speed so far would be 'New Horizons'. But even then NH is going at 14.5KM/sec compared with Voyagers 18KM/sec. There are no probes currently that would catch up to Voyager.
Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#66This is incredible. Not just because of the engineering that went into such a long lived machine, but also because of the ingenuity of the teams that have looked after this mission and those currently working on it. Half a century of operation. Bits of data, like gold dust, peppering our radio telescopes with telemetry from the edges of our protective solar shell, and beyond. Not only is the technical achievement som…
Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#67Tested on staging?
So... testing in production in a secondary market.
Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#68They are doing it all wrong. Who runs on-prem hardware these days??? They should put it all in the cloud, they can replicate and have many instances of virtual Voyagers, not the measly 2. CDN should help with latency too, I hear their latency is measured in many hours, and is getting worse every day! Also, software update, big deal - use CI/CD! They probably don't have a Kanban board either... Dinosaurs!
Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#69They are doing it all wrong. Who runs on-prem hardware these days??? They should put it all in the cloud, they can replicate and have many instances of virtual Voyagers, not the measly 2. CDN should help with latency too, I hear their latency is measured in many hours, and is getting worse every day! Also, software update, big deal - use CI/CD! They probably don't have a Kanban board either... Dinosaurs!
Re: NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away
#70They are doing it all wrong. Who runs on-prem hardware these days??? They should put it all in the cloud, they can replicate and have many instances of virtual Voyagers, not the measly 2. CDN should help with latency too, I hear their latency is measured in many hours, and is getting worse every day! Also, software update, big deal - use CI/CD! They probably don't have a Kanban board either... Dinosaurs!