SINGLE EVENT UPSETS CORRELATED WITH ENVIRONMENT

Single Event Upset rates on satellites in different Earth orbits are correlated with solar protons and geomagnetic activity and also with the NASA AP8 proton model to extract information about satellite anomalies caused by the space environment. An extensive discussion of the SEU data base from the TOMS solid state recorder and an algorithm for correcting spontaneous upsets in it are included as an Appendix, SAMPEX and TOMS, which have the same memory chips, have similar normalized responses in the South Atlantic Anomaly, SEU rates due to solar protons over the polar caps are within expectations. No geomagnetic activity effects can be discerned in the SEU rates.