Can refer to both electrical devices and electrical power sources for said devices (batteries, generators, etc) on spacecraft or launch vehicles. Use in conjunction with a specific spacecraft or vehicle tag.
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Are custom semiconductors used on board spacecraft/robots?
Spacecraft/robot are usually chock-a-block with instruments. These are usually devices with some electronics to them. These are probably semiconductor, or vacuum-tube devices - I may be wrong!
Working in vacuum may be different from working in…
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How many transistors do modern (2020) sattellite SPUs have?
After reading about Moore's law and the amount of transistors of CPUs on Earth, I learned that currently there are chips out there with roughly 50 billion transistors:
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However, the application of space technology is often…
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If electronics are magnetic, how do they work in space?
Only earth has north/south poles. This is not found in space. How can electronics work outside our earth?
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