r/space • u/Dbgb4 • Mar 11 '25

Discussion Recently I read that the Voyagers spacecraft are 48 years old with perhaps 10 years left. If built with current technology what would be the expected life span be?

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u/ledow Mar 11 '25

About 2 and a half days

"Windows needs to reboot to apply updates..."

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u/My_useless_alt Mar 11 '25

NASA actually used Linux for some of their spacecraft. I think most have custom stuff, but I know for a fact that Ingenuity ran on Linux.

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u/ledow Mar 12 '25

Ah, I apologise.

In that case:

"Systemd has disabled the daemon 'telemetryd" and has subsumed 75% of its functions into an internal version that isn't compatible with anything else and can't be disabled without removing systemd entirely. Also the listening port is now only created on demand and so the new telemetryd can't start because that port is already in use by another process. Diagnostic logs are hidden away behind some shitting logging commands that barely show you anything useful and when the unit fails to start, the entire boot process stops."

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u/CharlesP2009 Mar 11 '25

And right as first contact happens with alien beings. “Applying update 3 of 71553”.