Post #2299457
2024-04-23 07:17 UTC
And... yeah, that's it for now. The rest of the published comm schedule for Voyager 1 is blank, aside from a couple `DUMMY` commands in many days, which I assume are either just heartbeats so Voyager 1's "lost comms" watchdog doesn't panic, or maybe it's literally just earmarked transmitter time while they debrief from this repair and plan the next.
From here, with EL-40 repaired, they now need to do the same to a couple other programs, and hopefully that'll get science data flowing again too.
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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2024-04-23 07:21
In conclusion, I wish I could get my hands on the detailed schematics of these computers, their instruction sets, and enough of the programs or protocol docs that I could follow along more precisely with what these transmissions mean, and how this brilliant machine is put together. Sadly, I've not found anything comprehensive, at best high level block diagrams and bits and pieces of information like word sizes and the like. Hi JPL, I expect you're quite busy, but if you can share... pls?