With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) already up and taking some impressive images – some of them huge shots – where does he put them? On SSD of course. That’s a relatively small 68GB SSD, according to IEEE Spectrum, which is more than enough to handle a day’s worth of JWST images before beaming them back to Earth.
Why so modest in size? JWST is millions of miles from Earth, bombarded by radiation and temperatures below 50 degrees above absolute zero (-370 degrees F). So the SSD, like all other parts, must be radiation hardened. Samsung’s latest professional SSD might not cut it. In addition, JWST sends data back to Earth much faster than Hubble – up to 57 GB in the four hours it is in range each day. Seems like enough storage space.
-Matt Smith
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