[time-nuts] OT - but of interest?

[Gregory Muir]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:59:21 -0700, Jim Lux wrote:


>Total dose will be very small (after all astronauts live in LEO)

>So you'd worry about cosmic rays and single event effects.

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>They fly a lot of unmodified commercial equipment on ISS (and on 
>Shuttle, when we still flew it) and they typically have MTBF of a month 
>or so for the really soft parts.  Most stuff will last a year before it 
>dies.

<snip>

I'm curious if they ever have any problem with earth-based commercial component
outgassing clouding the camera optics.

Greg