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The voyager program was on a somewhat tight budget so I would imagine that had an impact. Having volatile memory is arguably a really good thing since it’s allo
by Shawnj2 3y ago
The voyager program was on a somewhat tight budget so I would imagine that had an impact. Having volatile memory is arguably a really good thing since it’s allowed them to patch the FSW on the vehicle in space a bunch of times, which a pretty common thing for spacecraft nowadays but would have been unheard of when it launched.
- fallous 3y agoI'm not sure that's a capability specific to volatile memory, merely R/W memory. R/W memory already existed on prior NASA computers in the form of magnetic core RAM (as opposed to magnetic rope memory which served as ROM).
- wolverine876 3y agoI'm understanding 'volatile memory' to mean memory that needs power for data integrity - if you lose power, memory is wiped like the memory in most desktops/laptops.