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Kichigai t1_ixrzdr8 wrote

Reply to comment by lucius10203 in Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit | Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space by chrisdh79

Have we fully radiation hardened digital imaging sensors? It's getting a good blast of all sorts of fun particles from Mr. Sun right then, wouldn't shock me one iota if they were being picked up by, or interfering with, the imaging sensor.

If it were a CMOS sensor it would make sense that you'd see per-line artifacting like this, though I might guess that NASA might use a CCD for this application.

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FlyingSpacefrog t1_ixsmb6r wrote

On the launch day live stream with Everyday Astronaut he said that the cameras on Orion’s solar panels are essentially just GoPros

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Kichigai t1_ixsolqf wrote

Information linked to in this tweet would seem to corroborate this.

>“Each of Orion’s four solar array wings has a commercial off-the-shelf camera mounted at the tip that has been highly modified for use in space, providing a view of the spacecraft exterior,” said David Melendrez, imagery integration lead for the Orion Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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