
Think Windows patches are a pain? Try to patch a Mars rover millions of miles away
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on August 5, 2015. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Software updates can be tricky. Now imagine updating old technology on a device millions of miles away in space. Such is the magnitude of the challenge facing NASA IT professionals. More than ten years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars. Around the same time,…