NASA's Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters

Re:NASA's Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters by protoman3000 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @09:45AM (#37966747)

I'm curious about how the upload to these spacecrafts is secured. We're talking about 1977 technology. What prevents an antisocial troll or adversial state to upload broken firmware?

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Re:NASA's Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters by cjreyes on Saturday October 21, 2023 @09:52AM (#37966798)

Likely somewhat modern tech to access the deep space network required to upload to the spacecraft.

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Re:NASA's Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters by qingcharles on Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:16PM (#37968675)

I posted about that last time it came up. I would guess nothing would stop you except resources. See link for someone that hacked another probe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37093344

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Re:NASA's Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters by mk_stjames on Saturday October 21, 2023 @10:22PM (#37972294)

They are so far away now that you need a massive amount of radio power and a properly large dish to communicate with a SNR good enough for the onboard system to receive your transmission.

Right now I think the only dish in the world setup with the correct equipment to signal the Voyagers that is large enough is the Deep Space Network dish in Canberra, Australia.

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