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Another roadblock would be whether the ISS has enough radiation hardening to survive outside LEO. It has ~100 commercial off-the-shelf Thinkpads on board¹, so
by desdiv 10y ago
Another roadblock would be whether the ISS has enough radiation hardening to survive outside LEO.
It has ~100 commercial off-the-shelf Thinkpads on board¹, so none of those are radiation hardened for sure. I can't find any information on whether the mission critical computer systems are radiation hardened or not.
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Communications_and_computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Co...