Reply to post: Re: Time for an early version of R2D2?

NASA tried turning lost spacecraft STEREO-B off and on again... but it didn't work. True story

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Re: Time for an early version of R2D2?

With PLCs, dual computers, software defined radios and all the other modern gubbins, they already have what you're describing. It's called "software".

Need someone to hit the reset button? The other computer can do that for you. Need to swap these ports around? We can reprogram them. Need to fire a certain thruster? Clickety clickety done. etc

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