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We are still getting science data from both Voyagers. So somebody somewhere has code to decode the bits.
by petschge 5y ago
We 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.