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by Someone 3126 days ago
The voyagers can be upgraded remotely. It had too, as it doesn’t have enough memory to store a program for its full mission.

AFAIK, the last update was in April 2010, “to delay turning off the AP Branch 2 backup heater for one year.“ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Interstellar_mission)

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> It had too, as it doesn’t have enough memory to store a program for its full mission.

Don't you just hate it when they make devices rely on cloud services... :P