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The US space agency will beam a software update roughly 15 billion miles through space to reach both Voyager 1 and 2.
Essentially, they will beam a command more than 15 billion miles away from Earth to alter the intervals at which the two Voyager spacecraft fire their hydrazine-fueled thrusters. "This far into the mission, the engineering team is being faced with a lot of challenges for which we just don’t have a playbook," Linda Spilker, NASA project scientist for the mission, explained. "But they continue to come up with creative solutions."
Not only that, the new update will add an override of sorts to the Voyager spacecraft emergency mode.
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