Sending affair into space is obviously expensive as hell . One of the many , amny cause why is the manufacturing process : everything that goes in or on a space fomite has to be built in a clean environment , and there ’s more to it than just being generous with the bleach .
Tom Scotttook a trip to Innovative Space Logistics , a Cubesat manufacturer base in the Netherlands . It has an ISO level-7 clean room , stand for it has one percent of the corpuscle you ’d witness in regular aura . Cleanliness is achieved through double - surround rooms , plenty of filters , and a lot of special clothing .
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Space hardware ( and , for that matter , most sensitive consumer electronics ) is assembled in uncontaminating rooms because one particle of dust on the wrong television camera sensor can ruin a very expensive mission ( or iPhone ) . But even more tight touchstone are enforce for inter - planetary missions , to not by chance bring life from Earth on a commission to see sprightliness on Mars .
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