Device from Tyndall National Institute in Cork will aid space missions

Irish researchers have made an electronics breakthrough which will help improve future space exploration missions.

Experts at Tyndall National Institute in Cork have developed a robust new type of transistor which can withstand high doses of space radiation.

Their new ‘radiation hard’ device will improve the reliance of space probe computer systems, allowing them to successfully and reliably collect huge quantities of data while at the furthest reaches of our solar system.