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SpaceX announces first human mission to ever fly over the planet’s poles (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/spacex
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They are definitely not giving a f^&* over radiation belts. Polaris dawn and now this one. But we need know orbit details to be sure.

[–] Tar_alcaran 9 points 5 months ago

A low orbit won't spend much time outside the belts, and they're not spending months in orbit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They ran the calculations and while it’s not great, a few orbits is a very manageable risk. Wouldn’t want to be in a permanent space station up there though.