Interesting marketing approach for their components. My computer runs hot rather than cryogenically cold and in a vacuum though. Hope they stress tested them for that too 😀

Space missions with consumer grade bleeding edge tech. What could go wrong?

moo100times:

Interesting marketing approach for their components. My computer runs hot rather than cryogenically cold and in a vacuum though. Hope they stress tested them for that too 😀

Funnily enough heat dissipation can be an even larger problem because vaccum offers no natural medium for carrying away excess heat. Obviously they're going to use some form of contact heat sink but yeah, eventually you have to transfer heat *somewhere*

asturur:

Space missions with consumer grade bleeding edge tech. What could go wrong?

i refer you to Apollo and the very first Intel IC's

moo100times:

Interesting marketing approach for their components. My computer runs hot rather than cryogenically cold and in a vacuum though. Hope they stress tested them for that too 😀

Cosmic radiation and bit flipping is the biggest issue in space ! Our atmosphere is shielding us to a very big degree , but still happens .... Now in space you and everything in comparison gets bombarded... Killing transistors and bit flipping in order of magnitude more than the surface of the earth!