Date   : Mon, 04 Nov 1985 10:56:11 EST
From   : Dave Towson (info-cpm-request) <cpmlist@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject: [spacerad: RE: Re: DAVID PLEASE POST FOR GENERAL INTEREST, DANTAS@JPL-VLSI.]

Fellow CP/Mers - Although the attached note has nothing to do with CP/M, it is
a followup to an earlier posting, and may be of interest to someone.


Dave


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Subject: RE: Re:  DAVID PLEASE POST FOR GENERAL INTEREST, DANTAS@JPL-VLSI.
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DEAR DAVID,

SPACERAD IS ESSENTIALY AN EXPERIMENT ABOARD THE CRRES (COMBINED RADIATION
RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTS SATTELITE) TO BE LAUNCHED NEXT YEAR. IT'S FIVE
YEAR MISSION IS TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO RESEARCH IN SPACE RADIATION HAS
GONE BEFORE! SPECIFICALLY, SPACERAD WILL CONDUCT TESTS ON A VARIETY OF
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AS TO THEIR CAPABILITY TO WITHSTAND VARIOUS RADIA-
TION ENVIRONMENTS IN OUTER SPACE. CONCURRENT GROUND TESTING WILL BE USED
TO VERIFY THAT OUR PRESENT METHODS OF GROUND TESTING AND MEASUREMENTS
HAVE BEEN AND WILL BE CORRECT FOR PREDICTING THE RESPONSE OF DEVICES IN
THE SPACE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT. SPACERAD HAS ITS OWN DATABASE AT JPL.
MY ACOOUNT IS THROUGH THEIR AUSPICES.

THE RADATA BANK IS A INDEPENDENT OFFSHOOT FROM SPACERAD, FUNDED BY NASA
TO HOUSE ALL PREVIOUS AND FUTURE RAD DATA COMPILED BY JPL AND/OR ANY 
OTHER SOURCES WHICH MAY WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO SAME. THIS DATA BANK AS
OPPOSED TO THE SPACERAD BANK, WIL BE OPEN TO ACCESS TO ANYONE. IT WILL
HOUSE BOTH TOTAL DOSE AS WELL AS SINGLE EVENT UPSET RADIATION DATA FOR
SEMICONDUCTORS. 

THE RADATA BANK MAY NOW BE ALSO ACCESSED VIA TELNET (NOT TELENET) AS
RADATA@JPL-MILVAX.

THE REASON I SENT IT TO THE INFO-CPM NET WAS DUE TO ITS WIDE BASE OF
READERS OF MANY INTERESTS. I ALSO SENT THE MESSAGE TO SPACE DIGEST
AND A NUMBER OF OTHER NETS.

                    THANKS FOR POSTING,
                      BOB DANTAS

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