ADVACAM will help NASA increase the safety of astronauts of the first crewed flight to the Moon since 1972 | Advacam

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ADVACAM will help answer one of the most important questions of space travel: “How to protect crews and equipment from the negative effects of cosmic rays?”.

The MiniPIX TPX3 detector, which will fly to the Moon, is based on ADVACAM's long-term cooperation with the Institute of Technical and Experimental Physics of the Czech Technical University and the international Medipix2 and Medipix3 collaborations which are coordinated at CERN. It builds on more than two decades of development of the sophisticated Medipix and Timepix family of chips.

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