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Van Allen Probes Mission

A NASA mission that sent two spacecraft into the Van Allen radiation belts to study the region.

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Jan 13, 2026
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Can current spacecraft electronics survive the radiation levels in the Van Allen belts without shielding?

Current spacecraft electronics can and do survive extended exposure inside the Van Allen radiation belts, but only when systems are designed and operated with radiation-hardened components, engineerin...

Feb 2, 2026

Van allen belt

The are doughnut-shaped zones of energetic charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, first detected in 1958 by instruments on and subsequent early spacecraft . They normally form two princi...