Speaker
Mr
Hugh Evans
(ESA/TEC-EPS)
Description
This talk presents the various radiation environments encountered by any spacecraft wandering in space, from LEO to interplanetary. For each of these environments, the potentially harmful phenomena - mainly trapped radiation, galactic cosmic rays and solar particle events - are presented as well as their degrading effects on spacecraft electronic systems.
Primary author
Mr
Hugh Evans
(ESA/TEC-EPS)