A critical part of the spacecraft uses software designed on Windows 98.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is updating the software on a critical part of the Mars Express spacecraft for the first time since it was deployed to the Red Planet in 2003. ESA says the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument „is receiving a major software upgrade that will allow it to see beneath the surfaces of Mars and its moon Phobos in more detail than ever before.“ And that is no small feat.
„We faced a number of challenges to improve the performance of MARSIS“, Enginium’s Carlo Nenna said in a statement.
