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by rjsw 3894 days ago
... or the COTS hardware is reliable enough in Low Earth Orbit.
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david-given 3894 days ago
Low Earth Orbit is under the Van Allen belts, and so is shielded from a lot of the radiation of the inner solar system.

The outer solar system is dead quiet and quite safe... but of course you have to get there first.

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randsp 3894 days ago
Maybe... Anyway, it's an interesting question to be answered. If hardening technics could be improved significantly, it'd mean we could use incredible faster and cheaper hardware.
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