Rebooting a Spacecraft, 140 Million Kilometres From Home.

Rebooting a Spacecraft, 140 Million Kilometres From Home.
By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/mzuOjGU)

Engineers have just upgraded the software running a spacecraft 140 million kilometres away, then held their breath through two full reboots with an eight minute delay on every command. The prize for getting it right is a close up look at an asteroid humanity has already changed forever, and the answer to a question nobody has been able to answer since 2022, what did we actually do to it?

July 14, 2026 at 04:00AM
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