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NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away (www.space.com)
submitted 8 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Interesting fact is voyager both 1 & 2 using less than 1 mega byte of ram

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Much less than 1mb. Something like 69 kB.

The ram only holds the programs which are written in Fortran and assembly. The images and other data are stored on tape.

Another interesting fact is that the computer holds the record for being the longest running computer of all time.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And 270w of power as of 2011, dropping exponentially over time

[–] poopkins 7 points 8 months ago

249W as of today. I'm hoping for some kind of miracle to get it to the 50-year mark.