... of the mission are to be checked periodically and it is crucial to know the information as soon as possible so that NASA can give the Voyagers new tasks to perform. Unfortunately, in the case of Voyagers 1 and 2, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it can take months for their signal, with information about the new tasks, to reach the Voyagers ... ...

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... processing unit) and peripheral equipment such as the disks, monitors, storages devices, tape drives, and printers. Computer software consists of a program or programs made up of machine-readable instructions that perform a logical sequence of functions-anything from maintaining software a bookkeeping system to performing computer games. All of the remarkable and continuing advances in computer technology may be credited to the highly ... ...

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