NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12 billion miles away

NASA just sent a critical software update to Voyager 2 and it took almost 18 hours to complete the upgrade.

Voyager 2 is over 12 billion miles from Earth, making its way through interstellar space. Along its almost 50-year journey, the probe has seen more of the universe than we ever will. Now,

was getting didn’t make sense, and hopes will project the probe for future interstellar space exploration. An older image showing Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 both outside of the Heliosphere. Because the space probe is so far away, the data it sends back is exceptionally unique and important. And, since it took so long to send the update,

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