Not exact matches
From a hardware perspective, the Van Allen Probes» most significant
challenge was to operate and perform measurements in the severe charged particle
environment of the
radiation belts, a region of space most spacecraft avoid.
These genome -
environment interactions only become significantly pronounced when the mouse is
challenged by low - dose
radiation.
Physical accommodation
challenges include, for example, instrument sensitivity to the planned mission's
radiation and thermal
environment, as well as ability to fit within the spacecraft's available payload resource allocations.