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Mar. 13th, 2024 07:50 pmvoyager 1 babbles like a brook, but is slighly lucid
in summary: the folks running the voyagers got voyager 1's flight data system, which is kinda busted at the moment, to transmit the entire contents of its memory. this should let the folks figure out what's wrong with it, and potentially patch it.
in theory, they could just ask for more dumps, and pull out the science and engineering data to drive voyager 1, but given how slow communications is (about 40 bits/sec) and how large the dumps are (something like 32k 14-bit words, or roughly a half million bits) this is not really viable. that's about 12 hours of transmission, and other space missions need the deep space network too.
in summary: the folks running the voyagers got voyager 1's flight data system, which is kinda busted at the moment, to transmit the entire contents of its memory. this should let the folks figure out what's wrong with it, and potentially patch it.
in theory, they could just ask for more dumps, and pull out the science and engineering data to drive voyager 1, but given how slow communications is (about 40 bits/sec) and how large the dumps are (something like 32k 14-bit words, or roughly a half million bits) this is not really viable. that's about 12 hours of transmission, and other space missions need the deep space network too.
