Evolution of long-delay error correction in Voyager also evolved a bit, given their 32KB firmware size constraint. NASA went down to k=7 (from k=9) for convolu

Evolution of long-delay error correction in Voyager also evolved a bit, given their 32KB firmware size constraint. NASA went down to k=7 (from k=9) for convoluted coding. Not only were Golay and Reed-Solomon ("a special subset of [Bose-Chadhuri-Hocquehem] codes" which are "a powerful class of Hamming code", Brown, Elements of Spacecraft Design) used, convolutional coding was also used. Sources: - Figure 3 - https://i.stack.imgur.com/z5F1p.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/z5F1p.png - paper -https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/615317 https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/615317