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[El Floppo]

Was very glad to hear they have a plan for Voyager communications

 

[Joe Schmo]

veejer

 

[El Floppo]

veejer

Had forgotten all about trek

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

An interesting read on some extreme long distance repairs on Voyager:

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager

blogs.nasa.gov

Was going to post this also. Interesting how they split the code up.

Yeah those people are way too smart. Reminded me of some of the problem solving from The Martian.

They also look quite old... like these are the only FORTRAN people that are still working.

Really is amazing

 

[The Z Machine]

I was thinking about this some more. The code might be written in Assembly or even lower level, CPU instruction specific "language". What a giant pain in the *** to modify from this distance.

 

[Joe Schmo]

"Hello and thank you for calling Assembly customer service help line. My name is Bob from Bombay and I am here to assist. How may I help you today"

 

[Phil Elliott]

"Hello and thank you for calling Assembly customer service help line. My name is Bob from Bombay and I am here to assist. How may I help you today"

FWIW-Mumbai is the new Bombay.

 

[Joe Schmo]

Well mark me down as an ignorant American. Turns out Bombay was renamed Mumbai is 1995. Guess I'm a little out of the loop.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Well mark me down as an ignorant American. Turns out Bombay was renamed Mumbai is 1995. Guess I'm a little out of the loop.

I just learned this on my first business trip to India in 2016.