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Here's a photo of the vault as it was about to be sealed in October last year: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/how-nasa-is-protecting-europa-clippe

Here's a photo of the vault as it was about to be sealed in October last year: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/how-nasa-is-protecting-europa-clipper-from-space-radiation/ https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/how-nasa-is-pro... In the meantime NASA built a whole spacecraft around it and the craft went through numerous tests. If they'd have to undo and redo all of that, they may even miss the 2025 backup launch date. I'm sure NASA is very eager to seek other ways to deal with this problem.

rob74 2y ago
Ok, that sounds a bit more convincing... I'm not the OP, but I was just trying to imagine why a "sealed vault" would work better against cosmic radiation than a more prosaic screwed shut container.
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fbdab103 2y ago
On one hand, it must be baller to work on assembling spacecraft. On the other, wearing those gowns all day must be terrible.