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Posted by The Computer Dood on June 29, 2007, 12:06 am
Si Ballenger wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:38:21 -0700, The Computer Dood
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>> Does anyone know where you can access the raw telemetry from the rovers?
>> Things, like power generated, RF output, Energy usage? They are
>> always talking about America losing their leadership in science, all the
>> while the "SMART GUYS" have all the information. I think if there were
>> some public dissemination of this data, we could get a lot more excited
>> about it. I for one have had programming and electronic classes, and
>> have built robotics, so I know how things are supposed to work. It
>> would be nice to see that on a real live machine. I guess they think we
>> are too "stoopid" in order to understand such things. I for one would
>> love a crack at it.
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> If you want to see real live telemetry from really fast manned
> vehicles, just watch the NASCAR and Indycar races on ESPN. Looks
> like they beat you to figuring it out. Sorry.
Actually, I have used TRACKPASS to watch the telemetry. That is what
gave me the idea, sort of. I applied for a job early in my career at
the "AEROSPACE COPRORATION". They were downloading raw telemetry data,
parsing it, and then moving it to controller consoles. Each Data block
was in a specific pattern (kind of like a structure in C), and then you
picked each data block, parsed it, and then streamed it to an interface
on a PC. These were dumb terminals back then, but to have constant
impot from the sensor you are responsible was pretty incredible.
I have searched for some DATA TABLES at NASA, and understand they are
somewhere, that you can get at. So I thought, Gov't project, "owned by
the people". so I am entitled to the data as much as anyone.
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> Things, like power generated, RF output, Energy usage? They are
>always talking about America losing their leadership in science, all the
>while the "SMART GUYS" have all the information. I think if there were
>some public dissemination of this data, we could get a lot more excited
>about it. I for one have had programming and electronic classes, and
>have built robotics, so I know how things are supposed to work. It
>would be nice to see that on a real live machine. I guess they think we
>are too "stoopid" in order to understand such things. I for one would
>love a crack at it.