And it's far out, man.

October 20st, 2023: NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters

The team is also uploading a software patch to prevent the recurrence of a glitch that arose on Voyager 1 last year. Engineers resolved the glitch, and the patch is intended to prevent the issue from occurring again in Voyager 1 or arising in its twin, Voyager 2.

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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have traveled more than 15 billion and 12 billion miles from Earth, respectively. At those distances, the patch instructions will take over 18 hours to travel to the spacecraft. Because of the spacecraft’s age and the communication lag time, there’s some risk the patch could overwrite essential code or have other unintended effects on the spacecraft. To reduce those risks, the team has spent months writing, reviewing, and checking the code. As an added safety precaution, Voyager 2 will receive the patch first and serve as a testbed for its twin. Voyager 1 is farther from Earth than any other spacecraft, making its data more valuable.

"That is great to hear. I found the bug in your code. Here is an updated version that corrects it.

🧩 Source Code"

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I thought the benchmark was whether it can play Doom?

Nothing can run Crysis properly…

And it'll blow up half way into the sky because it was sent up by SpaceX.

No they’re still on Earth actually, though they’re running on software written in the 50s

"Space billionaires"

It's a moonshot in that it has a very tiny likelihood of attracting alien intelligence that is such a game changer that it brings an unfathomable amount of wealth to our planet.

I thought it hit a light day away a couple years ago, or was that Voyager 2?

Holy shit, that’s insane

Don't let Microsoft get a pass azure went down last week too

But can it run Crysis?

We're almost to the trickle down phase. Hang in there

Probably the second one

They’d discover humanity peaked in 1999 and decide it is best to just leave us alone.

275 billion football fields away, which might be just shy of a field goal

How many hotdogs laid end-to-end?

there are no football fields in space, so zero

To be fair AU means more to me than miles or km in this case.. 168 times further from us than we are to the sun.

But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.

At that scale meters and miles are pretty close with respect to orders of magnitude, which is why practically everyone talks about these scales in AUs regardless of what units they actually used to do the science.

Though AU is a pretty legitimate term if you don't want to be going in Tera - Giga territory.
I'd assume astronomers other than in the US also use it.

It already did. Many times.