1
What is the probability that a deep space mission gets hit by such a Solar proton storm?
There's a paper by Riley et al. [2018] (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-017-0456-3) that estimates the occurrence rate of strong solar storms. So far as I recall, there is a ~10% of chance of a Carrington-level event happening once every decade.
The further out from ...
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
Related Tags
risk-management × 29iss × 3
spacecraft × 3
impact × 3
spacex × 2
mars × 2
launch × 2
nasa × 2
crewed-spaceflight × 2
space-shuttle × 2
astronauts × 2
failure × 2
safety × 2
health × 2
ntr × 2
space-industry × 2
maven × 2
artificial-satellite × 1
apollo-program × 1
history × 1
engine-design × 1
low-earth-orbit × 1
communication × 1
probe × 1
rovers × 1