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This made me sad after the obscene amount of work put into decoding the radio signal into a binary format. Is this because the specs for the data aren't publis
by kingcharles 5y ago
This made me sad after the obscene amount of work put into decoding the radio signal into a binary format.
Is this because the specs for the data aren't published? But wait, NASA is a public body, so these specs should be out there. Or is it because the spec is lost to time?
- petschge 5y agoWe are still getting science data from both Voyagers. So somebody somewhere has code to decode the bits.
- marcodiego 5y agoIs it hard to ask NASA people how to decode these bits?
- petschge 5y agoAsking shouldn't be hard. (And I would start at the DSN people at JPL). But the answer might be "well, we have that binary. I think it was written in $deadlanguage. But I have never seen the source, don't know who wrote it and I don't know how the decode works". Or they might have a binder full of documentation on paper. Who knows.
- piperswe 5y agoGiven what I know about the JPL's engineering process, they probably have a binder full of a few hundred pages of documentation archived somewhere.