[time-nuts] OT - but of interest?
Gregory Muir
engineering at mt.net
Sat Apr 27 16:40:18 UTC 2013
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:59:21 -0700, Jim Lux wrote:
>Total dose will be very small (after all astronauts live in LEO)
>So you'd worry about cosmic rays and single event effects.
<snip>
>They fly a lot of unmodified commercial equipment on ISS (and on
>Shuttle, when we still flew it) and they typically have MTBF of a month
>or so for the really soft parts. Most stuff will last a year before it
>dies.
<snip>
I'm curious if they ever have any problem with earth-based commercial component
outgassing clouding the camera optics.
Greg
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