<![CDATA[The software that runs Voyager spacecrafts, onboard and on the ground, and the challenges of maintaining it.]]>The software that runs Voyager spacecrafts, onboard and on the ground, and the challenges of maintaining it.

Fluency in assembly is no longer routine training. In Dodd’s framing, younger engineers often have the capability but not the inclination.

They may consider tapping the retrocomputing community.

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NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s

The popular version of this story has hardened into a fixed shape. NASA still runs the Voyagers on software written in a programming language nobody alive can read, kept going by a handful of engineers all in their eighties, with no one queued up to replace them. In our reading of the record, parts of […]

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/amoroso/statuses/116611988266702271https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/amoroso/statuses/116611988266702271Thu, 21 May 2026 10:02:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The software that runs Voyager spacecrafts, onboard and on the ground, and the challenges of maintaining it. on Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:09 GMT]]>@amoroso Or CTF teams at the next university. They're most likely also still quite good at assembly I'd assume.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/116611980311271594https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/116611980311271594Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:09 GMT