Meanwhile, in February 2000, at the Intel Developer's Forum, Intel demonstrates an upcoming 32-bit processor, code-named Willamette, running at 1.5 GHz. That w

Meanwhile, in February 2000, at the Intel Developer's Forum, Intel demonstrates an upcoming 32-bit processor, code-named Willamette, running at 1.5 GHz. That was the Pentium 4 not yet in existence so there is no chance of there being an x86 able to be 'Meltdowned' in space. However you are most definitely thinking along the right lines, but I am sure the NASA boffins would have tried all the hacks they could back in 2007. Or maybe the management made sure this was not possible, much like how the Voyager missions were not supposed to go beyond Saturn yet behind the backs on management everyone made sure those spacecraft could get past the edge of the heliosphere.