Technology
How spacecraft memory survives cosmic rays
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
When a rogue cosmic ray blasts a traditional computer chip, it can flip a binary bit and brutally crash a billion-dollar spacecraft. Magnetoresistive random-access memory ignores these deadly radiation spikes entirely by storing data as magnetic states rather than fragile electrical charges. It is practically indestructible memory for our most hostile cosmic neighborhoods.
One discovery leads to another.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Technology →
