CERN Timepix chips fly to the Moon

CERN Timepix chips fly to the Moon At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. During their ten-day journey aboard the Orion spacecraft, the four astronauts are expected to receive tens of millisieverts of radiation, more than ten times what most people experience in an entire year on Earth. Understanding and managing this exposure is essential if humans are to continue to explore space safely.

This is precisely the role of the six Timepix chips on board Artemis II. Developed at CERN, they have been deployed