Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
by quailfarmer on Monday October 14, 2024 @01:51AM
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This may be true for high energy particles, but the majority of TID damage is done by higher flux lower energy, for which shielding is often viable!
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The point is that shielding turns a single high energy particle that would otherwise strike and probably destroy a single transistor, into a veritable spray of lower energy particles causing bit flips or worse all over the circuit. This spray of particles can be stopped... with 1.3 feet of lead shielding.