A space weather problem would be a single event upset. Something got flipped to the wrong state and could have burned up (e.g., power electronics). You protect

A space weather problem would be a single event upset. Something got flipped to the wrong state and could have burned up (e.g., power electronics). You protect designs against this with circuit design but can't use shielding. Shielding is to reduce total ionizing dose, not single event upsets.