Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [February 5, 2021]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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Did They Find the Satellite Again?
Deep space probes often have multiple computers, and they'll have mechanisms for if a sort of fail over from one to another. Every so often you can reload new code in there and say, start executing again. The way it actually works is tThere's a deep space tracking network that's a bunch of radio antennas in different places on the earth. And as the earth rotates, different antennas will be lined up to communicate with a deep space probe that's near jupiter or past neptune.
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