1.6.5 Single Event Upsets


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1.6.5 Single Event Upsets

At intervals, and particularly when the spacecraft has its apogee over the South Atlantic, the memory of the BCS microprocessor can be corrupted by a Single Event Upset (SEU). Often this affects a part of the memory that does not disturb the running of the BCS, but whenever an SEU is detected (most are flagged as a result of a checksum calculation), the BCS microprocessor is rebooted. Occasionally, several hours, or days of data have been lost before this is done.    


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