Radiation Tolerant Displays

The Radiation Tolerant Displays project aims to develop a reference design for a display and computer system that can withstand and mitigate the effects of radiation in deep space. Radiation Tolerant Displays seeks to deliver on this goal through a collaboration across industry and agency and by building upon the Mars Campaign Office’s Project Polaris Radiation-Tolerant Displays effort.

A fully developed display system architecture will be available for use across all deep-space missions, including Artemis and beyond to Mars, leveraging work from radiation-tolerant NASA-funded and SBIR projects. The display system will possess the ability to reliably provide pertinent information and data to the crew member when they need it, increasing crew safety and efficiency. The scalable and modular nature of the display system, combined with intrinsic and by design radiation tolerance, makes it durable and easy to maintain, meaning lower mass for resupply missions which equates to lower cost.