You know how they say if we don't launch now, we can't launch for 8 more days or whatever, that's because they're tracking the layers of the Van Allen belt. They launch when they can send the shuttle through the thinnest part of the belt at the highest speed to reduce exposure. All of the electronics are hard sealed against the radiation the same way they protect things from EMPs.
The space station doesn't have to worry about this because they orbit between the belt and the earth.
You know how they say if we don't launch now, we can't launch for 8 more days or whatever, that's because they're tracking the layers of the Van Allen belt. They launch when they can send the shuttle through the thinnest part of the belt at the highest speed to reduce exposure. All of the electronics are hard sealed against the radiation the same way they protect things from EMPs.
The space station doesn't have to worry about this because they orbit between the belt and the earth.