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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by spookthesunset on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:20AM (#27857176)
The hardware dudes have it harder than software dudes. It’s easy to fix software. Hardware, not so much.

I guess the worst thing you can fuck up in space fairing software is the boot loader. Mess that up and you can’t update the software.

Note: I have never designed software for space. I have no clue what I’m talking about.

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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by RobertoG on Friday July 16, 2021 @12:02PM (#27857700)
>>"I have no clue what I’m talking about. "

Nobody told me we have to specify that! I thought that was the default and we only have to say when we are experts in something!

Now I have to delete all my posts.

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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by xwdv on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:08PM (#27862182)
It's fine, pretending you're an expert on anything is the standard around here.
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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by WalterBright on Friday July 16, 2021 @03:59PM (#27860574)
That's why you always have an independent backup system. One that uses different software, developed by a different team, using different languages, and different algorithms.
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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by NortySpock on Friday July 16, 2021 @12:18PM (#27857873)
I thought one of the Viking landers was lost when a software update pointed the big antenna at Mars rather than at Earth... hard to send software updates after that.
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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by zarq on Friday July 16, 2021 @12:35PM (#27858040)
That's an easy fix; just put a repeater on Mars...
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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by astrange on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:31PM (#27862676)
We've got one of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter

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