Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle
A new research paper discusses how radiation damage to the Hubble Space Telescope has been out of phase with the solar cycle for over four years. The article provides technical links and metadata for the scientific community to access the study.
Why it matters
Understanding the impact of solar cycles on space hardware is critical for the longevity and maintenance of expensive orbital assets like Hubble.
Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Juan Paolo Lorenzo Gerardo Barrios [ view email ] [v1] Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:00:17 UTC (28,507 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Radiation damage to the Hubble Space Telescope has been several years out of phase with the Solar cycle, by Gavin Leroy and 10 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: astro-ph.IM < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: astro-ph astro-ph.EP astro-ph.SR physics physics.ins-det physics.space-ph References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers?
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