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A Mars orbiter, famous for discovering signs of water on the Red Planet, is about to receive a software upgrade. While many are holding onto Windows 10 for as long as they can as Microsoft drives to ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) will be rolling out an update for the Mars Express spacecraft that will bring massive improvements to the orbiter's science capabilities. The Mars Express space ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has finally decided to give the Mars Express probe a software update. It's been running on a 20-year-old operating system all this time, and the organisation figured an ...

The days of dial-up internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may be over on Earth, but on Mars, the early years of the internet still live on. A Martian spacecraft has been running on software ...

One of the European Space Agency's lowest cost and most successful missions, the Mars Express, is finally receiving a software upgrade. Nineteen years after its launch, the Mars Advanced Radar for ...

Designing, building, and testing a spacecraft isn't cheap — not to mention the cost of launching it and sending it on a journey to another planet. That means once a spacecraft is in place, like the ...

(KGTV) — A story that caught our eye claims a highly successful spacecraft on Mars is still running on Windows 98. It's true, but not for long. The Mars Express probe was launched by the European ...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express has recently received significant upgrades as it ditches Microsoft Windows 98. The Martian probe of the international space agency is roaming the red planet to ...

WTF?! There aren't many reasons why an in-use system would still run an OS developed in Windows 98, but here's a good one: it's been traveling through space for the last 19 years. Thankfully, the ...

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