cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/19951473
NASA astronauts will soon fly with the latest smartphones, beginning with Crew-12 and Artemis II. We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments for their families and share inspiring images and video with the world. Just as important, we challenged long-standing processes and qualified modern hardware for spaceflight on an expedited timeline. That operational urgency will serve NASA well as we pursue the highest-value science and research in orbit and on the lunar surface. This is a small step in the right direction.
Source: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
Imagine forgetting your phone on the moon.
It will be interesting to see how the hardware handles the Van Allen Belts. Radiation hardening is a fairly big part of spacecraft planning, and limits what hardware can be used.
I feel that the craft itself would be shielded so that the extraneous stuff inside doesn’t have to be.
I wish it were so. The spacecraft helps, but doesn’t block everything.
I heard that Artemis II will have all new shielding for crossing the Van Allen Belt and will be carrying test equipment to measure possible effects
In our current capitalist hellscape I think the crew will be listed as test equipment for measuring radiation.
Nah, astronauts are hella expensive.
I wonder if they still have the EDGE network up there. No 5g towers on the moon…
