Fortifying computer chips for space travel


Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


It’s a good thing, then, that engineers know how to make a spaceship’s microprocessors more robust. In the case of Orion, which last December had its first (unmanned) test flight around Earth, a number of radiation safeguards have already been put in place. As well as keeping the ion source powerful, engineers at the cyclotron are also making improvements to the beam that blasts the microprocessors during testing. High-energy particles aren’t just in space, after all. More-reliable electronics in space and on Earth: brought to you by the 88-Inch Cyclotron.


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