Telemetry Circuits in a Pulsed Radiation Environment

Radiation effects have become a serious problem for designers of space vehicle electronic equipment. By simulating the environment and irradiating various components and circuits more and more data have become available for engineering application. However, it has not been possible to simulate the pulsed radiation environment correctly, because it has not been possible to obtain the high radiation intensities occurring in the actual environment. The following represents experimental data obtained at radiation intensities >1012 RADS/sec. This was an intensity 4 to 5 orders of magnitude greater than what had been achieved in previous experimental data.