Re: ISS as Mars vehicle

From: Matthew Montchalin (chalin_at_aracnet.com)
Date: 12/18/04 

To: sci-space-tech@moderators.isc.org
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:19:49 -0800

Henry Spencer wrote:
|In article <dQIvd.4402$oq2.3729@news.cpqcorp.net>,
|Rick Jones <foo@bar.baz.invalid.retro.com> wrote:
|>How much additional shielding/mass did that European lunar probe had
|>(SMART?) that used an ion engine to spiral out from Earth to lunar
|>orbit?
|
|SMART-1 didn't have a lot of shielding, but it did have rad-hard
|electronics... and it started from GTO, not from low orbit, so it
|was already partway out of the belts.

As the ISS is nudged into an ever higher orbit, which of its electronic
components will be the first to go?