an engineer with the agency’s Deep Space Network, which operates the radio antennas that communicate with both Voyagers and other spacecraft traveling to the Moon and beyond, was able to decode the new signal and found that it contains a readout of the entire FDS memory
oh, to be part of the core team of engineers for this - decoding ancient schematics and code, your entire focus on keeping this project alive. absolutely legendary stuff.
What’s really cool is they wanted to inspect the FDS to see if any parts of it is corrupted, and it was sending a whole damned readout back to us the entire time. No one could figure that out until now though.
Right! I wonder how did the probe send an entire memory dump back without them realizing. Was it programmed to do that when a system failed or something?
oh, to be part of the core team of engineers for this - decoding ancient schematics and code, your entire focus on keeping this project alive. absolutely legendary stuff.
What’s really cool is they wanted to inspect the FDS to see if any parts of it is corrupted, and it was sending a whole damned readout back to us the entire time. No one could figure that out until now though.
Right! I wonder how did the probe send an entire memory dump back without them realizing. Was it programmed to do that when a system failed or something?
That person who enabled the debug flag on their last command is shitting their pants at the moment