--- On Thu, 10/9/09, Audi <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Audi <[email protected]> Subject: [ICPH] V Ger To: "icph" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 10 September, 2009, 4:10 PM The Voyagers—built on the successes of the Pioneer spacecraft before them and setting the stage for Galileo, Cassini and other interplanetary robotic probes—had a paltry amount of computing power by today's standards. Each spacecraft had three computers with about 8,000 words of memory each, Stone says. That meant the Voyager team had to frequently upload new programs, particularly during encounters when scientists wanted to point cameras at various targets. "The mission was designed to be reprogrammed," Stone says. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=salvaging-nasas-grand-tour ~~ blog: http://icph.blogspot.com/ Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_ ._,___ New Email addresses available on Yahoo! Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. Hurry before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
