https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tempaway11722Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:44:37 +0000It was also to do with how dates were stored in very old databases that were conceived in the 70s when storage was at a premium - a lot of them just used two digits for year.

]]>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:49:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479100tempaway11722https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479100https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479100Yes it sounds like they had to do some MacGyver level stuff at the last minute. As I understand it NDL (Navigation Doppler Lidar) was a NASA project bundled aboard the craft as a non-mission-critical demo but when the main naviagation failed they had to send a patch to the craft (about two hours before landing) to activate NDL and use it as the main navigation. Hoping more details come out about this.

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