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Yep, they do! I had some of this discussion on a thread talking about the Mars helicopter here that Goddard does a lot of radiation testing on commercial chips.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39175423#39182421

Lots of the new space, and smaller satellite companies use a lot of commercial parts. A lot of the flight data has shown even better results than the radiation testing (possibly due to added stress of testing at higher rates vs low rates over longer mission duration).

Generally speaking most of this is in LEO with a pretty low radiation environment. Whereas the area around Jupiter is one of the worst radiation environments in the solar system due to the radiation belts (like the Van Allen belts on steroids). This page on the Juno Radiation Vault says the spacecraft is exposed to an anticipated 20 Mrads of radiation. Whereas spacecraft in LEO are exposed to 0.1-10 krads per year depending on the orbit.

Also a fun fact, this is with Juno trying to limit exposure to the radiation belts as much as possible. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Radiation_Vault

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)#/media/File:...

parent dr_orpheus 2 years ago

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