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I think the purpose was less a joke and more along the lines of an extended metaphor. I agree that it is very interesting. I was hoping for somebody to make jus

I think the purpose was less a joke and more along the lines of an extended metaphor. I agree that it is very interesting. I was hoping for somebody to make just the comment you did. Thanks. But the question was meant to really spawn a general discussion around software release in general in a deep space environment. So anybody know how the next upgrade would take place, assuming Curiosity needs one? Would it be staged on the Mars Orbiter first? Relayed a frame at a time? Do the concepts of CI apply in deep space deployments? Why or why not?

nissimk 14y ago
This is a very exciting story about repairing a software issue on the Mars Spirit rover in 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20110719212649/http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000702/ http://web.archive.org/web/20110719212649/http://www.planeta... Shorter wikipedia version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover#Sol_18_.28January_21.2C_2004.29_flash_memory_management_anomaly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover#Sol_18_.28January_...