Spacecraft Heading for Asteroid NASA Slapped so Hard It Changed Its Orbit Gets Crucial OTA Update

Rebooting a Spacecraft, 140 Million Kilometres From Home.

Engineers have just upgraded the software running a spacecraft 140 million kilometres away, then held their breath through two full reboots with an eight minute delay on every command. The prize for getting it right is a close up look at an asteroid humanity has already changed forever, and the answer to a question nobody has been able to answer since 2022, what did we actually do to it?

Spacecraft Heading for Asteroid NASA Slapped so Hard It Changed Its Orbit Gets Crucial OTA Update

Without meaning to, a binary system of asteroids floating around millions of miles from Earth has become the object of desire for the most powerful space agencies on Earth. The first one, NASA, shot a dart at it to see what damage it would do, while the second, ESA, is now close to reaching the pair of cosmic rocks to see what really happened out there. I’m talking about a binary asteroid system called 65803 (continue reading...)