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"...encodes block frame data from the spacecraft Command and Data Handling (C&DH) system into rate 1/6, CCSDS Turbo-coded blocks." [pdf] http://www.bou

• tptacek 11y ago
  Cooooool. ["CCSDS" "standard"] was the Google search I was looking for.
  • planteen 11y ago
    If you are curious about reading more, CCSDS is an overloaded term in the space industry for an onion of different OSI layers that are changing all the time. My guess is that the telemetry coding standard CCSDS 101.0-B-6 is likely to have been used on New Horizons. Even though it is now a "historical document", some new space missions still use it. Here is a copy: http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/101x0b6s.pdf http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/101x0b6s.pdf