I don't think the big issue is "solar" radiation per se. The most powerful cosmic rays come from outside the solar system but end up getting to Earth. But it's less likely to be dispersed at higher altitudes.
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I don't think the big issue is "solar" radiation per se. The most powerful cosmic rays come from outside the solar system but end up getting to Earth. But it's less likely to be dispersed at higher altitudes.
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Tell that to tinfoil hat believers.
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Just so other readers are aware:
“Single Event Upset (SEU): Radiation-induced errors in microelectronic circuits caused when charged particles (usually from the radiation belts or from cosmic rays) lose energy by ionizing the medium through which they pass, leaving behind a wake of electron-hole pairs”. NASA Thesaurus
Those charged particles produce an ionizing trail resulting in a, "Single Event Transient (SET)." I.e., A single event transient (SET) is caused by the generation of charge due to a single particle (proton or heavy ion) passing through a sensitive node in the circuit.
SEU's can be mitigated by Parity, ECC (error correcting codes), redundncy, and software (as explained earler).
“Single Event Upset (SEU): Radiation-induced errors in microelectronic circuits caused when charged particles (usually from the radiation belts or from cosmic rays) lose energy by ionizing the medium through which they pass, leaving behind a wake of electron-hole pairs”. NASA Thesaurus
Those charged particles produce an ionizing trail resulting in a, "Single Event Transient (SET)." I.e., A single event transient (SET) is caused by the generation of charge due to a single particle (proton or heavy ion) passing through a sensitive node in the circuit.
SEU's can be mitigated by Parity, ECC (error correcting codes), redundncy, and software (as explained earler).
