Nope, did you not watch Star Trek?
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 3:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Voyager
The Voyager probes don't use solar; they are nuke powered. There is pretty much
no actual sun out where they are now anyway. Their EOL is coming around pretty
darn soon though.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 8/31/2022 10:13 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
I was taught, many years ago, that minority (might have been majority) charge
carrier migration in semiconductors would render them useless in 20 years.
Also solar panels are supposed to wear out in 20 years. And cosmic rays kill
all semiconductors. etc etc Danged good modulation they are using whatever it
is. I think it was some kind of pseudo random noise code but I may be wrong
about that. A professor in an analog class told me that almost 40 years ago.
From: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 11:08 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Cc: 'Chuck McCown'
Subject: RE: [AFMUG] OT Voyager
I’d bet a smaller codebase helps. No gigabytes of libraries to debug.
But yeah, if something I built lasted 45 years in outer space I’d pat myself
on the back a bit.
From: AF mailto:[email protected] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 11:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Chuck McCown mailto:[email protected]
Subject: [AFMUG] OT Voyager
This space vehicle launched 45 years ago started sending garbage telemetry.
The folks running that show figured it was routing the data through a known
defective computer.
So they commanded it to switch to the good computer and they got good
telemetry.
Talk about latency... 16 hours.
So 45 (more likely 55) year old hardware running an OS that old is still
essentially rocks solid. So are the transmitters and receivers and other RF
components allowing communication clear out into deep space.
Damn, those engineers and coders must be proud of the job they did.
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