On AD 2007 December 14 Friday 08:57:52 PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > The navigation software that JPL used to guide the Voyager spacecraft > past Jupiter and Saturn was done in Fortran. They may still be using > that code, for all I know.
Must be one way or another. Voyager II is making news because it just hit the 'termination shock'--where solar wind slows down below the speed of sound. Apparently this region fluctuates depending on solar activity and interstellar currents. Exciting stuff. Soon it'll be outside the heliopause which is where solar wind really fades out. Although you can make a gravitational claim that the solar system's Oort cloud extends out to a radius halfway to Alpha Centauri it's really amazing how far these craft have gone. Justin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
