"This far into the mission, the engineering team is being faced with a lot of challenges for which we just don’t have a playbook."

NASA’s interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away::A few updates to the two Voyager spacecraft should extend the space explorers’ lives so they can continue adventuring in the cosmos.

  • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    More than a full day. It would take the signal about 18.5 hrs to get to Voyager. We’d then have to wait another 18.5 hrs for the signal to get back so we could know if it worked.