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Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024
Bruce Waggoner of the Voyager team describes how engineers diagnosed Voyager 1's 2023 loss of telemetry and patched its flight software from 15 billion miles away. The talk covers the spacecraft's architecture and the scarcity of old documentation.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as an amazing blind-debugging story with deep detail on 1970s spacecraft computing.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- !!Con
- Topic
- voyager 1 debugging
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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2 weeks ago, Bruce Wagoner from the Voyager program gave a talk at !!Con about how they recovered from the CMOS memory issue that they had a year ago. It’s basically blind debugging with a latency of 45 hours. The talk is amazing and goes …
tverbeure on Hacker News · 2024-09
In NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission AliveWhen Voyager failed last year with a CMOS memory error, one of the big problems was that a bunch of low level information was gone or conflicting. For example, they sometimes had to guess assembler instructions because the code printouts were low quality photocopied pages. …
tverbeure on Hacker News · 2024-09
In NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission AliveI had the extreme pleasure of seeing Bruce Waggoner of the Voyager team give a keynote at !!Con just last month. The recording landed on YouTube just a couple days ago, so this is great timing: [VIDEO]
Twisol on Hacker News · 2024-09
In NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive
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