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GLL - A patch for the Galileo magnetometer

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037548

In 1993 I worked on a project to produce a software patch for the
magnetomer instrument on the Galileo spacecraft, then in orbit around
Jupiter.  The magnetometer had developed a bad RAM byte.  Unfortunately,
the development system that had been used to program the instrument had
been decommissioned.  I wrote a new development system from scratch using
Macintosh Common Lisp (now Clozure Common Lisp) and used it to develop
a patch for the magnetometer code.

This is a raw dump of my archive from that project.  I have not looked
at this code in 25 years and I don't remember much in the way of details
about exactly what needed to be done or why.  I'm putting this out there
simply because some people have expressed interest in it.

This code was written while I was an employee of JPL in 1993.  I don't
know what its copyright status is.  If you want to do anything more with
it than study it academically you should probably contact the JPL public
information office and get permission.