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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Spacecraft in extreme environments

24 Aug 2017

Building instruments that boldly go into some of the solar system’s most extreme environments presents unique challenges for instrument designers. Keith Cooper explores how they do it

An artistic impression of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, showing the craft and its various instruments bathed in intense sunlight
In the hot seat
Space is not a friendly place for instruments to operate. Cosmic radiation fries their electronics;

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Keith Cooper is a science journalist based in the UK, @21stCenturySETI on Twitter
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