{"id":204208,"date":"2013-05-21T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"14ac508948fbea344e47bd4517df259e"},"modified":"2013-05-21T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:02:00","slug":"reading-radiation-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=204208","title":{"rendered":"Reading radiation in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/05\/alphasat_tdp8_development\/12687594-1-eng-GB\/Alphasat_TDP8_development_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSpace can be a hostile and at times unpredictable environment. Although years of testing go into developing technology that can tackle the challenges it presents, a laboratory can replicate only so much. Building instruments able to cope with the realities of space requires extensive research both on Earth and above it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRadiation is a particular wild card. Testing the full effects of radiation on new electronic components is difficult in a laboratory which offers, by definition, a controlled environment. Space is not controlled. Space requires instruments to deal with a mix of complicated and fluctuating environmental factors \u2013 complex circumstances to simulate in an experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/05\/alphasat_tdp8_development\/12687594-1-eng-GB\/Alphasat_TDP8_development_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSpace can be a hostile and at times unpredictable environment. Although years of testing go into developing technology that can tackle the challenges it presents, a laboratory can replicate only so much. Building instruments able to cope with the realities of space requires extensive research both on Earth and above it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRadiation is a particular wild card. Testing the full effects of radiation on new electronic components is difficult in a laboratory which offers, by definition, a controlled environment. Space is not controlled. Space requires instruments to deal with a mix of complicated and fluctuating environmental factors \u2013 complex circumstances to simulate in an experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}