https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-anniversary-computers-command-data-attitude-control/

According to the above, the software was written in FORTRAN.

There's probably at least one warehouse somewhere full of green bar sprocketed teletype / dot matrix paper with the source code on it, if not also magnetic tapes. And that assumes they haven't archived it in other places and formats in the last ~50 years.

70kB though. That's a huge amount of memory for 1977. Low-end personal computers were still selling with less than that 10 years later.

That said, the article doesn't distinguish ROM and RAM, so I wonder how much of that is ROM. ROM is and was far cheaper.

Also, that 70 might be a rounding up of 65536 bytes, which is 64k, so you might be spot on with your guess there.

I am always fascinated by the magnitudes nasa overengineers their missions. The Mars rovers for example. They always get so much more out of it.

I just did the math. Parker's top speed is around 430,000mph. So with the earth being a bit over 7900 miles across it would take a minute for Parker to traverse the width of the earth.

Infinitely empty AFAIK.

Interstellar space is similar to atoms and the electron cloud, some tiny amount of matter and a whole heap of SFA.

(Someone get at me with the actual numbers, but I'm leaning toward space being more sparse by percentage than an atom.)

The main solar system objects were accounted for and closely avoided, now it's a very roomy area to float through alone.

12 foot antenna

Good band name

But, it worked!

They have actually done it, the madlads

(What's the gender neutral equivalent of madlads?)