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That occurred to me as well, but I imagine this is separated from the communications. Maybe it's not controlled at all... it does say autonomous, after all.
by mod 6y ago
That occurred to me as well, but I imagine this is separated from the communications.
Maybe it's not controlled at all... it does say autonomous, after all.
- amself 6y agoI imagine all commands have to get signed for the rover to accept them, but even if their keys were compromised and some vulnerability was found in the software, wouldn't you also need a network of really big dishes (see DSN) to actually send the commands to the rover?
- laurent92 6y ago> Wouldn’t you also need a big network of dishes Nah, you can subscribe to big-dishes-on-demand using AWS Ground Station. Wait, they did exactly that: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/ https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/ While some innovate, once again AWS reaps the margins of the whole space conquest by discretely providing the infrastructure that everyone needs. Clever!
- folli 6y agoI honestly chuckled because of your AWS parody. Than I clicked the link...
- alvarlagerlof 6y agoSame. Now I'm wondering what they're not offering.