The software that runs Voyager spacecrafts, onboard and on the ground, and the challenges of maintaining it.

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

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.

https://spacedaily.com/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/

#voyager #assembly #space #retrocomputing

[agowa338@chaos.social]

@amoroso Or CTF teams at the next university. They're most likely also still quite good at assembly I'd assume.

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@agowa338 I'm not sure what a CTF team is.