NASA just sent a critical software update to Voyager 2 and it took almost 18 hours to complete the upgrade.

NASA plans to use Voyager 2 as a testbed for the update. If all goes according to plan, it will also send the patch to Voyager 1, which is currently more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, thus making its data even more valuable than that of Voyager 2.

  • @reddig33
    4•11 months ago

    I wish NASA would launch a “Voyager relay” satellite to sit in between Earth and Voyager 1 & 2. Something to help us keep in touch the further they get away from us.

    • slazer2au
      2•11 months ago

      Doubt that will help, they are that far away that the inverse square law causes so much loss a relay in real space wouldn’t help.

  • @Gigan
    3•11 months ago

    Damn, I wonder what the ping is on those

    • slazer2au
      2•11 months ago

      22 hours each way. So 44 round trip

        • slazer2au
          3•11 months ago

          Chess would work, people play that by international post.

  • aviationeast
    2•11 months ago

    Well there goes my chance to hack voyager.