• festus@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    I believe the levels of radiation are several orders of magnitude different. I don’t think you can even use a digital camera for a robot near these open reactors as the signal is completely swamped by the radiation, while in space you would just have a couple of inaccurate pixels at any point in time.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Camera issues are a whole nother issue, but other then tech debt, NASA likes to use older computers because the traces on the chips are bigger and less likely to have their bits flipped. A friend of mine programs for satellites and his systems use some sort of PowerPC chip.