Where is New Horizons now |
Where is New Horizons now |
Mar 29 2006, 02:58 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 2-March 06 Member No.: 691 |
i found this web site
http://www.heavens-above.com/solar-escape.asp it show where NH is compared to voy1, 2/pioneer any one else have a fav web page that shows NH loc? I think this one is updated onece a day |
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Jul 10 2010, 11:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
My how time flies. I can remember when NH was on the drawing boards thinking it was so far in the future as to nullify any excitement I had over it. But wow, just five years. Marking it on my Outlook calendar now.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Aug 14 2010, 01:15 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 611 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
.... But wow, just five years. Marking it on my Outlook calendar now. Now there's an expression of faith in Microsoft products.... think it'll work 5 years from now (assuming you consider its function satisfactory even now)? Digs at MS aside, there is a serious issue for long outer solar system missions in knowledge retention in people, and software maintenance: I remember ESA used Displaywrite 4 when I started working on Huygens... and I think there were some ADA compilers used for the descent imager software that were no longer supported circa 2003 when the code had to be patched |
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Aug 14 2010, 04:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
Now there's an expression of faith in Microsoft products.... think it'll work 5 years from now ... I think there were some ADA compilers used for the descent imager software that were no longer supported circa 2003 when the code had to be patched. I've been porting my Outlook data from release to release since it was internal-only back in 1996, so that's 14 years so far. I don't think another 5 is really pushing it. A friend sent me some C code (not Microsoft stuff) from almost 30 years ago. I compiled and ran it with only minor problems. And don't even get started on the huge bulk of algorithms in Fortran that are pushing fifty years old now. With today's virtual machine technology, I think the right approach would be to create a virtual machine image containing the OS, compiler, version-control, and other tools used to develop a mission and then keep copies of that VM indefinitely. When you get new hardware, you just need to be sure it still runs your old VMs. (That's a much, much lower hurdle than running all your apps.) That assumes you don't NEED an upgraded version of the OS or tools, of course. It still makes sense to stick with widely-used technologies, since those are most likely to be updated with an eye towards backwards-compatibility. --Greg Disclaimer: I left Microsoft a couple of years ago, after over 14 years there. Their opinions don't necessarily represent me. :-) |
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