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Is it just me that really wants to FOIA the firmware code to read it? What is it written in? Assembler, surely? What is the development toolchain like in 2023 for a 70s computer? Do they have an emulator? What happened to the spare development Voyager they had lying around?
Now this is hackernews. Imagining working on spacecraft where no human made thing has gone before. Also is this correct? >NASA extended the mission so that Voyager 2 could visit Uranus and Neptune; it is still the only spacecraft ever to have encountered the >ice giants Aren’t they gas giants? I mean they are probably very cold, but usually they are called gas giants.
> Aren’t they gas giants? I mean they are probably very cold, but usually they are called gas giants. "Ice giant" seems to be the more modern terminology: An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. There are two ice giants in the Solar System: Uranus and Neptune. In astrophysics and planetary science the term "ice" refers…
Now this is hackernews. Imagining working on spacecraft where no human made thing has gone before. Also is this correct? >NASA extended the mission so that Voyager 2 could visit Uranus and Neptune; it is still the only spacecraft ever to have encountered the >ice giants Aren’t they gas giants? I mean they are probably very cold, but usually they are called gas giants.
Uranus is for sure.
There's a great ROI on these, I don't know why we're not sending more just like it with updated packages.
That's because the planetary alignment that let us send them only happens once every 175 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_program
New Horizons would like to have a word.
Now this is hackernews. Imagining working on spacecraft where no human made thing has gone before. Also is this correct? >NASA extended the mission so that Voyager 2 could visit Uranus and Neptune; it is still the only spacecraft ever to have encountered the >ice giants Aren’t they gas giants? I mean they are probably very cold, but usually they are called gas giants.
> Aren’t they gas giants? Uranus is for sure.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Aren’t they gas giants? I mean they are probably very cold, but usually they are called gas giants. "Ice giant" seems to be the more modern terminology: An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. There are two ice giants in the Solar System: Uranus and Neptune. In astrophysics and planetary science the term "ice" refers…
Astrophysicists have some funny conventions. Like how everything but hydrogen and helium are "metals": https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20120...
Also π ≈ 1. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2205:_Types_of_Ap...
Now this is hackernews. Imagining working on spacecraft where no human made thing has gone before. Also is this correct? >NASA extended the mission so that Voyager 2 could visit Uranus and Neptune; it is still the only spacecraft ever to have encountered the >ice giants Aren’t they gas giants? I mean they are probably very cold, but usually they are called gas giants.
> Aren’t they gas giants? I mean they are probably very cold, but usually they are called gas giants. "Ice giant" seems to be the more modern terminology: An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. There are two ice giants in the Solar System: Uranus and Neptune. In astrophysics and planetary science the term "ice" refers…
Is it just me that really wants to FOIA the firmware code to read it? What is it written in? Assembler, surely? What is the development toolchain like in 2023 for a 70s computer? Do they have an emulator? What happened to the spare development Voyager they had lying around?
Pioneer 10 is technically further away, just dead as a rock without power (no comm for 20 years) Voyager website is awesome https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline/ A very different time, thank goodness for DEI now https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/assets/images/timeline/0003.jpg
Is it just me that really wants to FOIA the firmware code to read it? What is it written in? Assembler, surely? What is the development toolchain like in 2023 for a 70s computer? Do they have an emulator? What happened to the spare development Voyager they had lying around?
