With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now launched and capturing some – some of them are huge snapshots – where does it put them all? On an SSD, of course. It is a Relatively small 68GB SSDbased on IEEE Phổ Spectrumjust enough to process a day’s worth of JWST images before broadcasting them back to Earth.
Why so modest in size? JWST is a million miles from Earth, exposed to radiation and temperatures below 50 degrees above absolute zero (-370 degrees Fahrenheit). So SSDs, like all other components, must be radiation-hardened. Samsung’s latest professional-grade SSD might not cut it. Plus, JWST sends data back to Earth much faster than Hubble – up to 57GB in four hours of range per day. It just seems to have enough storage space.
-Mat Smith
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