It wasn't caused by intense solar radiation. The incident happened under normal radiation conditions, but the fault would cause greater impacts during intense radiation events.

You need to read the Airbus statement more carefully, and not follow journalists misinterpretation

All excellent points too

For background levels yes. For enhanced radiation events, no it is not taken seriously. All existing standards are advisory and not compulsory.

Radiation levels can increase by 1000s of times in a short period and standard error detection and correction could easily be overwhelmed.

It would be difficult to say without knowing the system and the update changes etc. However, to me at least, this would indicate a change in some error detection and correction software.

Our work has been to point out that a significant radiation storm could overwhelm error correction systems

Yes that will most likely be the impact

This vindicates all our work at Surrey on this topic!

We have been warning about this for a long time

Our research group in the UK have been warning about this for decades. Hopefully our message might start to be taken seriously

It's incredibly exciting to be working on this program. The first set of radiation data across a range of altitudes during a GLE!

The official press release can be found here
www.surrey.ac.uk/news/world-f...

One on the left is much easier to take in, but use the layout of the right one with the text left aligned

Aircraft will have received some increase in dose rates today. Initial results from model runs and airborne data from the UK is being analysed at the moment

This triggered a significant GLE with ground monitors seeing 70% increase. Airborne monitors are still indicating a moderate radiation environment for aircraft

Sadly not 🤣 Nice of the printer to remove it's print head cover though