Realizing that rather than protect electronic circuitry, electrostatic discharge networks when hit by cosmic rays and charged particles, can actually cause the electronic circuitry in satellites and other space applications to fail, the inventor created an ESD network having a redundant voltage clamping element in series with a first voltage clamping element between two voltage pads. The ESD network may be connected to a power voltage pad or a signal voltage pad either directly or through a dummy voltage pad. The voltage clamping elements may further comprise an array of unit cells wherein the array is electrically equivalent to single large transistors currently used in ESD networks. By creating an ESD network as an array of unit cells, benefits greater than those obtained by using a single transistor as a clamping or a trigger element are realized--such as increased ballast resistance and less overall damage to the circuitry resulting from cosmic rays and particles.