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Re:Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence by m463 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:44AM (#24977361)
It has become commonplace to solve hardware problems with software. But many times it is not for heroic reasons, it's because hardware is cost-reduced.
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Re:Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence by ReptileMan on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:49AM (#24978373)
Unfortunately when preparing something for space missions you have constraints that are not as easily solvable as throwing more money.
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Re:Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence by radiorental on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:04AM (#24980229)
I'm not sure I'd agree with that at all. On the surface of this planet software is used to simulate hardware as it's much quicker to iterate on a design.

In space, however, you can only run the hardware in it's destined environment once. Software is critical to the design process regardless of the HW costs.

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Re:Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence by patmorgan23 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:46PM (#24983237)
Intel has patched hardware flaws using microcode updates before.
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