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Juno Radiation Vault

Juno Radiation Vault is a compartment inside the Juno spacecraft that houses much of the probe's electronics and computers, and is intended to offer increased protection of radiation to the contents as the spacecraft endures the radiation environment at planet Jupiter. The Juno Radiation Vault is roughly a cube, with walls made of 1 cm thick titanium metal, and each side having an area of about a square meter. The vault weighs about 200 kg (500 lbs). Inside the vault are the main command and data handling and power control boxes, along with 20 other electronic boxes. The vault should reduce the radiation exposure by about 800 times, as the spacecraft is exposed to an anticipated 20 million rads of radiation It does not stop all radiation, but significantly reduces it in order to limit damage to the spacecraft's electronics.

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The vault has been compared being like "armor" or like a "tank", and the electronics within, like the spacecraft's "brain". The power systems have been described as a "heart". The vault is one of many features of the mission to help counter the high radiation levels near Jupiter, including an orbit that reduces time spent in the highest radiation regions, radiation-hardened electronics, and additional shielding on components. One reason that titanium was chosen over lead in this application was because titanium was better at handling launch stresses. Juno is a space probe sent to Jupiter in 2011 and it entered orbit the night of July 4, 2016. Juno is part of the New Frontiers program of NASA and was also built with some contributions by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). ==Inside the vault==
Inside the vault
There are at least 20 different electronics boxes inside the vault, which is intended to reduce the amount of radiation they receive. Examples of components inside the vault: • Command and data handling box • Power and data distribution unit • Waves instrument receivers and electronics box • JADE instrument Ebox (or E-Box) • Low-Voltage Power Supply Module • Instrument Processing Board • Sensor Interface Board • High-Voltage Power Supplies (two) JEDI and JunoCam do not have electronic boxes inside the vault. == Technological relations ==
Technological relations
A Ganymede orbiter proposal also included a design for a Juno-like radiation vault. However, because the radiation is less at Jupiter's moon Ganymede and the orbiter's path, the vault would not have to be as thick, all else being similar. Jupiter's magnetosphere is about 20,000 times as strong as Earth's and is one of the items of study by Juno. (see also Junos Magnetometer (MAG) instrument) Another spacecraft with radiation shields was Skylab, which needed a radiation shield over a borosilicate glass window to stop it darkening, and several film vaults. There were five vaults for photographic film aboard the Skylab space station, and the largest weighed 1088 kg (2398 lb). It was suggested by the publication Popular Science that the Europa Lander may use a radiation vault like the Juno Jupiter orbiter. ==Radiation infographic==
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