[AR] Re: LEO radiation shielding
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 16:35:09 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Pax L wrote:
I think the duration for most of the lunar and mars missions have been
pretty short as well.
Not really -- planetary missions can last many years. (There are a few
that inherently have short lives because of environmental issues.)
NASA may do a but more there in electronics design and fault handling,
but still I don't think you see much physical shielding.
They make very heavy use of rad-hard parts, and so have to resort to major
shielding only in extreme cases, like Jupiter orbiters (Jupiter's Van
Allen belts are really nasty -- the Galileo orbiter's CCD imager was
buried in a block of tantalum, looking out through a thick glass slab).
Henry
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