I once found a manual describing the machine code for the Voyager computers (can't find it anymore). Recently there was a flipped bit in memory which caused serious problems:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-151
One of the things I find most fascinating about the mission are the RF systems -- the antenna on voyager is approx 40 watts yet the ground systems can read something on the order of kilobits per second -- and they are billions of miles away.
One of the things I find most fascinating about the mission are the RF systems -- the antenna on voyager is approx 40 watts yet the ground systems can read something on the order of kilobits per second -- and they are billions of miles away.
This is an interesting read too: http://books.google.com/books?id=yws55Rx1orEC&pg=PA28...