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Troy Meink: “You really have to look at every piece of digital equipment…”

Featuring: Troy Meink, Secretary of the Air Force | National

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Dr. Troy Meink | Schriever Spacepower Series

Published | Video Starts at 51:56

Different orbits have different exposures, just in normal, normal as well as when we are having heightened solar activity, it varies across those and there's different physics involved in how that radiation may affect the digital hardware. So you really have to look at, You really have to look at every piece of digital equipment and do testing to understand the vulnerabilities. and what the effect is going to be. I think this one or a zero thing where if it's affected, we can't use it. That's not really true. Really. (51:56–52:10)

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Asserts the necessity of testing digital equipment for vulnerabilities in space.

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