Space rated parts are necessary for standard duration space missions.
Short duration missions are different, as evidenced by many a CubeSat
that use pretty standard COTS parts. Rather than building a standard
duration satellite, I wonder what we can do to our current avionics
system to make it mor
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:43 -0700, Andrew Greenberg wrote:
> Space rated parts are necessary for standard duration space missions.
Not really; amsat often uses COTS chips that aren't stable under
radiation, but which exhibit known (and reversable) failure modes.
SA1100 chips with cache disabled an
