10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
2:09 p.m.
On 10 Nov 2008 at 16:10, William Donzelli wrote:
I think this is all blown up from a few researchers
over the years
that have been looking for the original telemetry tapes. At least one
group recently has been looking into something with anomalies in
signal transit time or something, and the raw telemetry data could be
distilled to get some real data. NASA, however, did not keep many of
the telemetry tapes - but they never intended to keep them. As soon as
able, the tapes were read and decoded into the data they wanted from
the probes and eventually made public to the zillions of scientists
that were foaming at the mouth for it. Keeping the telemetry tapes
would be similar to Jay archiving this list with all the TCP/IP
headers and junk.
I remember chatting with a guy in the next office over who was on the
MDSF project (remember Skylab?). He quoted some fairly astonishing
numbers to me on the amount of the raw telemetry data that was
actually discarded in processing.
Was any of the software from MDSF ever archived?
Cheers,
Chuck