OTA Update - 15 Billion Miles From Earth

[RickBullotta]

If NASA can do this, Ford should be able to do OTAs reliably here on earth.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

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[EL5_Zero]

If local OTA updates have issues, there's a very slim chance updates "millions of light years" away are actually possible.

 

[powerboatr]

If NASA can do this, Ford should be able to do OTAs reliably here on earth.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

If ford used satellites...yup I bet it would be fabulous

 

[redline]

NASA actually cares... not sure if ford does

 

[Davexxxx]

Well, to be fair, in this example, NASA is only working with one target, vs millions of vehicles?

 

[Mtnman1]

If NASA can do this, Ford should be able to do OTAs reliably here on earth.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

Sending 1 OTA to a specific device is so much easier than sending to millions of devices at unknown locations.

 

[RickBullotta]

Sending 1 OTA to a specific device is so much easier than sending to millions of devices at unknown locations.

Ha. Yes, I know - it's actually what I've done for work over the years. ;-)


I just thought it was cool that they pulled this off!

 

[HammaMan]

Nasa does have rocket scientists after all. They sent men to the moon with less processing power than a modern refrigerator has.

Nasa knew from the outset they were sending a computer into space with sensors attached. Ford still thinks they're building cars with computers being these mysterious boxes that control parts attached to the door.

 

[Buyer2021]

Gotta give huge kudos to the entire Voyager Team - all involved from design through build through continuing operations have demonstrated more than a few a rather remarkable feats. IMO.

It must be great to be part of such a successful undertaking, far exceeding the original goals, working through challenges they never expected to even have the opportunity to face. Every ounce of pride those modest but persistent and brilliantly innovative folks can muster is justified.

Methinks it's laughably inappropriate to even utter "Voyager" and "OTA" in the same breath, for so many reasons that don't reflect poorly on Ford at all.

 

[JasonATL]

I was really hoping this was going to be BC 1.4 via OTA finally. ?

Seriously amazing work by NASA.

 

[fordtruckman2003]

Voyager has dropped off a few times over the years. They have gotten it back in touch shutting down parts or rebooting or bypassing.

When they screwed up few years ago sending wrong command it rotated the dish away from earth. It took high powered boosted signal screaming at it to get it rotated back around.

Ford can't manage to get door module programming right since they have a third update now for a part from 21. NASA got it right the first time with code that has mostly worked just fine all these years with a few OTA rewrites from millions of miles away.

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