NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore
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Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA
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Doom in space
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Flipped bit could mark the end of Voyager 1‘s interstellar mission
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NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft twelve billion miles away
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Apollo 12 source code: Looking at the original flown code printout, and the 1202 error fix
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A software glitch forced the James Webb Space Telescope into safe mode. The $10 billion observatory didn’t collect many images in December, due to a now-resolved software issue.
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The operating systems that keep spacecraft running
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How NASA does software testing and QA
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Boeing to fly second Starliner uncrewed test flight at no expense to taxpayer, after OFT-1 mission software malfunctions
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Boeing's Starliner could have failed catastrophically during a December mission if a software error hadn't been found and fixed while the vehicle was in orbit
10 votes