An ESA-financed nanosatellite, due to lift off aboard the inaugural flight of Vega-C today , will operate an AI system in the harsh, radiation-wracked environment of the Van Allen Belts. The shoebox-sized Trisat-R – one of six ‘CubeSats’ on the flight, headed up to a rarely-trafficked close to 6000 km altitude orbit – is also carrying radiation-detection payloads from CERN , the European Council for Nuclear Research, Slovenian firm SkyLab s and ESA itself.
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