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Voyager team reactivates 37 year old hardware by reverse engg
- beemboy 9y ago> "The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language, to make sure we could safely test the thrusters," said Jones, chief engineer at JPL. Pretty awesome.
- dexcs 9y ago"These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or "puffs," lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet." Does anyone know whats the fuel inside those thrusters is?
- Someone 9y agohydrazine (http://www.astronautix.com/m/mr-103.html http://www.astronautix.com/m/mr-103.html)
- brudgers 9y agorecently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827369