NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
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Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#2> younger engineers often have the capability but not the inclination
Kids these days... Why would someone in their right mind think working on the Voyager project could damage their careers? You can work on new and fancy tools all you want to improve supporting tools, and it's still one of the coolest space missions active. Plus, it has a real end - at some point, support will be further reduced and the person will move on to another space exploration job, with the extra golden star of having been on the Voyager.
Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#3> younger engineers often have the capability but not the inclination Kids these days... Why would someone in their right mind think working on the Voyager project could damage their careers? You can work on new and fancy tools all you want to improve supporting tools, and it's still one of the coolest space missions active. Plus, it has a real end - at some point, support will be further reduced and the person will…
I would go further... This project gives a rare opportunity for a young engineer to learn to build truly mission critical, resilient software while requiring complete, top to bottom understanding of the software and hardware stack.
Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#4> younger engineers often have the capability but not the inclination Kids these days... Why would someone in their right mind think working on the Voyager project could damage their careers? You can work on new and fancy tools all you want to improve supporting tools, and it's still one of the coolest space missions active. Plus, it has a real end - at some point, support will be further reduced and the person will…
I would go further... This project gives a rare opportunity for a young engineer to learn to build truly mission critical, resilient software while requiring complete, top to bottom understanding of the software and hardware stack.
Even all that to the side, it lets you say you worked on the Voyager project!
Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would go further... This project gives a rare opportunity for a young engineer to learn to build truly mission critical, resilient software while requiring complete, top to bottom understanding of the software and hardware stack.
Even all that to the side, it lets you say you worked on the Voyager project!
If I'm reviewing CVs and I see that you worked at NASA on the Voyager code, you're getting an interview just so I can ask about it.
I wouldn't normally approve of CV driven development, but for this?!
Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#6> younger engineers often have the capability but not the inclination Kids these days... Why would someone in their right mind think working on the Voyager project could damage their careers? You can work on new and fancy tools all you want to improve supporting tools, and it's still one of the coolest space missions active. Plus, it has a real end - at some point, support will be further reduced and the person will…
I would go further... This project gives a rare opportunity for a young engineer to learn to build truly mission critical, resilient software while requiring complete, top to bottom understanding of the software and hardware stack.
I am no longer a junior, but would have been upset to be tasked with refreshing the old historical obsolete laundry (no matter how sacred or distinguished), expecially when I already had experience delivering safety critical products packing much more modern technologies.
The opportunity they would be offering is not rare at all! The opportunity to research and design something truly new on the other way is very scarce.
Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#7It's mind boggling that they didn't digitize every last scrap of paper around the project years ago, for starters.
Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#8I highly recommend watching "Its Quieter in the Twilight" (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9rrxr)
a cool documentary about the engineers still running voyager (a lot of them have been on it for decades)
Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even all that to the side, it lets you say you worked on the Voyager project!
If I'm reviewing CVs and I see that you worked at NASA on the Voyager code, you're getting an interview just so I can ask about it. I wouldn't normally approve of CV driven development, but for this?!
I agree, and I would think the same, but I also feel like many things I've been sold as "door openers" for interviews unfortunately tend to ultimately be things that no one cares about.
Re: NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
#10I highly recommend watching "Its Quieter in the Twilight" ( https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9rrxr ) a cool documentary about the engineers still running voyager (a lot of them have been on it for decades)
Content not available. Any chance it wasn't like that 10 minutes ago?