How much radiation can a Raspberry Pi handle in space? I asked Ian Charnas, the chief engineer for Mark Rober's Crunchlabs, and he shared a ton of great data on testing the CM4 while prepping for their SatGus cubesat launch!
Short answer, it reset (soft reboot) on average every 39.3 Rads on a cyclotron at UC Davis, and was killed (couldn't reboot anymore) at 57.8 kRad in the gamma radiation testing lab at University of Maryland!
Jeff Geerling
How much radiation can a Raspberry Pi handle in space? I asked Ian Charnas, the chief engineer for Mark Rober's Crunchlabs, and he shared a ton of great data on testing the CM4 while prepping for their SatGus cubesat launch!
Short answer, it reset (soft reboot) on average every 39.3 Rads on a cyclotron at UC Davis, and was killed (couldn't reboot anymore) at 57.8 kRad in the gamma radiation testing lab at University of Maryland!
Read more: www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-much-radiation-… (thanks to Ian and Crunchlabs for sharing this data!)
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