Sentences with phrase «spacecraft radiation environment»

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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.

According to NASA, the unique orbit will keep the spacecraft in a safe thermal and radiation environment, and maximize the amount of sky TESS can image, allowing its cameras to monitor their targets continuously from a stable orbit for the duration of the mission.

Curiosity's Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) is the first instrument to measure the radiation environment during a Mars cruise mission from inside a spacecraft that is similar to potential human exploration spacecraft.

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.