• Question: is it hard to build the cameras

    Asked by Roman to Ryan on 11 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Ryan Smith

      Ryan Smith answered on 11 Jun 2019:

      In short yes, but that is partly why I took the job, it is a challenge.

      The main difficulty is making something so reliable that it wont break when being fired up on a rocket (being vibrated a lot), can deal with temperatures that could be as low as -50 degrees, and higher than 100 degrees (really extreme temperatures in space) and can deal with the huge amounts of radiation the sun emits every day (we are protected by the atmosphere, a satellite is not).

Comments