I have been following the digital satellite discussion with great
interest. Both sides have valid points.
I would like to pose a strictly engineering question. Keep in mind that
I'm not an engineer but consider myself reasonably well read on the
amateur satellite
world.
A digital satellite would imply loads of processing power on the
satellite. I would assume that with this additional activity that there
will be more
hardware on the bird with more complexity as this won't be a bent pipe
system.
With more physical hardware of much more complexity in orbit what about
the radiation hazards to this more complex and physical hardware heavier
system? Wouldn't a software based system be prone to radiation induced
hardware and software glitches?
What about shielding etc?
Dave Marthouse N2AAM
dmartho...@gmail.com
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Dave Marthouse
dmartho...@gmail.com
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