Throughout the challenging 2020 year, RADSAGA ESRs have not stopped making progress in radiation effects on electronics research. The two topical conferences, RADECS and NSREC (which will be held in virtual mode this year) feature 11 presentations from them. Find them out.
ESR projects have started!
The 15 RADSAGA ESRs have been selected and since September 2017 have been progressively hired by the network beneficiaries, starting their participation in interdisciplinary and intersectoral secondments in other network parterns.
RADSAGA will significantly advance the qualification methodology required for complex electronic systems used in space, aviation, car, accelerator and other high-reliability application areas in Europe.
This will be done in four strongly interconnected and coherent scientific intersectoral Work-Packages (one of which is transversal) and a total of 15 Early Stage Researchers trained through a well-defined programme and structure.
Radsaga News & Events
A big milestone in the RADSAGA project has been achieved with the public release of the RADSAGA System-Level Radiation Testing Guideline. The document contains recommendations about when and how to use system-level radiation testing as verification scheme for space systems and sub-systems.
Despite the hard times we live in, RADSAGA did not stop its radiation testing activity and exploited the possibility of performing remote testing. This was achieved at RADEF, at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, thanks to the on-site cooperation from the two RADSAGA ESRs: Sascha Lüdeke (ESR1) and Daniel Söderström (ESR2) as well as the kind facility operators.
Other Events
The Single Event Effect Symposium and Military and Aerospace Programmable Devices Combined Workshop will be held virtually from August 30th, 2021. Find out more here.
The International Reliability Physics Symposium will be held virtually on March 21-25, 2021. Find out more here.
The 2021 RADiation Effects on Compoments and Systems Conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, on September 13-17, 2021. Find out more here.
In the Press
On July 11th, CERN and ESA signed a bilateral agreement to address the challenge of operating electronics in harsh radiation environments such as in high energy physics experiments as well as space. Find the link to the news here.
Cosmic rays monitors found out that radiation levels in the Earth's atmosphere both at ballon altitude and on ground have been increasing by 13% over the last four years. This is mainly caused by the lowest solar minimum of the Space Age.
For the first time ever an irradiation test was performed on a complete satellite. This was made possible by the use of the CERN CHARM facility which allows testing full systems thanks to the widespread radiation field in the irradiation room.