Posted on 03/29/2018 5:54:55 PM PDT by Enchante
Voyager does not have a home to return to.
Or does it?
Apparently it’s that those particular thrusters had not been used in 37 yrs. The article confused me, too. I thought they meant that Voyager 1 had been incommunicado all that time.
Does assembler ever become outdated?
Take that all you countries that have switched to the metric system!
It is amazing, I was 27 when Voyager was launched in 1977, now at 67 I am retired and it is still going!.
Thanks, that info is much appreciated for us non-spacejunkies. :^)
The article gave a number of us the misimpression that Voyager 1 had gone silent after 1980.
Now I find that NASA’s own PR is much better and clearer than the article I poster:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/voyager-1-fires-up-thrusters-after-37
Yeah, I was suckered in by the hyperbole and mythmaking of the headline and other bits in the article.
That’s why I did some surface digging.
“Send more Chuck Berry”
The Voyager series of spacecraft were the first to use a convolutional code and the new Viterbi algorithm for decoding which allowed error correction of exceedingly weak signals like we are now receiving. Dr. Viterbi went on in later years to found a little outfit called Qualcomm.
Aliens commandeered it. Count on it!
great news. a tribute to the skill and diligence of those original project engineers.
Does assembler ever become outdated?
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Only to HTML programmers
They never call. They never write...sad.
“dormant since 1980”
Yeah, I know what that’s like...
. Earth-side software and computers for reading the images are also no longer available.[4]
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They pitched equipment that was used on a continuing project?
Yep. In fact, it gets outdated first. Assembler is the basic way to talk to a processor. It is unique to a processor or a family of processors.
That means it takes about 20 hours for a signal to reach it.
“I guess to tech startups maybe”
I was thinking along those lines ... “assembly” is never outdated ... we have tools to generate the equivalent of assembly these days (compilers) and, in some instances, people code in assembly for their particular processor for performance and/or deterministic behavior. Outdated makes absolutely no sense :-).
I’m pretty sure they meant “assembler language for a now obsolete processor”.
Very cool.
Carl Sagan wouldve appreciated this.
BBBillion.
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