Radiation environment onboard spacecraft at LEO and in deep space

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2016.7500765" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2016.7500765</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2016.7500765" target="_blank" >10.1109/AERO.2016.7500765</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Radiation environment onboard spacecraft at LEO and in deep space

Original language description

It is well known that outside the Earth's protective atmosphere and magnetosphere, the environment is very harsh and unfriendly for any living organism, due to the micro gravity, lack of oxygen and protection from high energetic ionizing cosmic radiation, as well as from powerful solar energetic particles (SEPs). The space radiation exposure leads to increased health risks, including tumor lethality, circulatory diseases and damages on the central nervous systems. In case of SEP events, exposures of spacecraft crews may be lethal. Space radiation hazards are therefore recognized as a key concern for human space flight. For long-term interplanetary missions, they constitute a limiting factor since current protection limits might be approached or even exceeded. Better risk assessment requires knowledge of the radiation quality, as well as equivalent doses in critical radiosensitive organs, and different risk coefficient for different radiation caused illnesses and diseases must be developed. The use of human phantoms, simulating an astronaut's body, provides detailed information of the depth-dose distributions, and radiation quality, inside the human body. In this paper we will therefore review the major phantom experiments performed at Low Earth Orbits (LEO) [1]. However, the radiation environment in deep space is different from LEO. Based on fundamental physics principles, it is clear that hydrogen rich, light and neutron deficient materials have the best shielding properties against Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) [2,3]. It has also been shown [4,5] that water shielding material can reduce the dose from Trapped Particles (TP), the low energetic part of GCR, and from low energetic SEP events.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20304 - Aerospace engineering

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

ISBN

978-1-4673-7676-1

ISSN

1095-323X

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

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Publisher name

IEEE

Place of publication

New York

Event location

Big Sky

Event date

Mar 5, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000388374902081