The intense radiation from Jupiter could damage parts of the Europa Clipper spacecraft, putting NASA's mission to explore Europa at risk.
The fate of an upcoming mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is currently in limbo after NASA discovered that some of the spacecraft’s parts are not equipped to handle the Jovian system’s heavy radiation.
“The manufacturer is working with the mission team to support ongoing radiation test and analysis efforts in order to better understand the risk of using these parts on the Europa Clipper spacecraft,” NASA wrote in a. The spacecraft was designed by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory , in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center.
“It appears that the issue that may be impacting the transistors on Europa Clipper is a phenomenon that the industry wasn’t aware of and represents a newly identified gap in the industry standard radiation qualification of transistor wafer lots,” NASA wrote.
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