A spacecraft from Mars has been operating in Windows 98-era software for 19 years, but no more
An illustration of the Mars Express spacecraft launched in 2003. Illustration: ESA The days of telephone Internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may have ended on Earth, but on Mars, the early years of the Internet are still alive. A Martian spacecraft has been running software designed more than 20 years ago in a proprietary …