Reply to post: Re: RFU

New Horizons probe awakens to receive software upgrade

defiler

Re: RFU

"The update procedures have become more robust"

They tend to come with dual memory banks for the firmware these days, so if it borks it can fail back to the other. Not so much in the old days, and I wouldn't like to be on that with New Horizons. Every byte is payload.

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