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Old news, the JPL did this in the 90s with a Lisp REPL on the spacecraft[1] while under way. And I bet that wasn’t even the first time anyone did that.

1. https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html




Sounds like the beam forming antennas and radios can also be reprogrammed, so it's not just the CPU/OS.


Even that doesn’t seem particularly novel to me.

I haven’t dealt with satellite systems in a while, but I distinctly remember seeing beam forming in some satellite communications company’s advertising material several years ago, and I’m sure even they had updatable firmware.




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