Launch Costs Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Launch Costs
# 1952 byaglobus@... on May 23, 2006, 10:34 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
Shuttle and ISS astronauts use laptops as a matter of course.
processors and chips, running Linux using TCP/IP for communication. The
only 'space-qualified' chip is for encryption/decryption for ground
communications. These are in low Earth orbit. It's not clear that it would
function properly in higher orbits with more radiation.
At 03:21 PM 5/23/2006, you wrote: