On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:59:59 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 08:23:38 GMT, Jan Panteltje
> 
> declaimed the following:
>
>>I was more thinking along the lines where people board SpaceX flights to
>>Mars and bring the lightest possible personal computers with them:
>>raspberries High radiation levels...
>>Or astronauts in earth orbit, or high altitude flights...
>>Moonbase
>>
>  Any device typically allowed on a space mission has to undergo
rigorous
> testing for all sorts of environmental situations... Both from the
> device (can't have it out-gassing corrosive vapors under reduced air
> pressure) and to the device (radiation hardening if it has any safety
> critical functions).

I did read recently that they've been using Plain Old laptops on ISS with
no radiation-related problems - but of course that is inside the Earth's
magnetic field, so there's a fair amount of shielding from ionised
particles.



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