Hera asteroid mission's brain to be radiation-hard and failure-proof
At the heart of ESA's Hera mission to the double Didymos asteroids will be an onboard computer intended to be failure-proof.
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At the heart of ESA's Hera mission to the double Didymos asteroids will be an onboard computer intended to be failure-proof.
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