"Deflector Shields Up!"
Actual things you know, not like in the movies but impressive if made to work...
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Deployed Electromagnetic Radiation Deflector Shield
Creating a Zone of Minimum Radiation and Magnetic/Plasma Effects for Spacecraft - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Spaceflight outside of the Earth's protective magnetic field is dangerous from a cosmic radiation perspective. Inside Earth's magnetic field, where the manned International Space Station (ISS) orbits, the radiation encountered is minimal and almost all is deflected by our planet's magnetic fields. However, outside that protective shield, the Sun's solar wind (high energy radiation, solar energetic particles or SEPs) consisting of protons, electrons, alpha particles and plasmas continuously bombards the spacecraft for the months or years of spaceflight. On occasion the Sun produces a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) that vastly increases the energy and volume of this radiation. These particles damage human DNA as well as living tissue and can destroy sensitive electronics. The Deployed Electromagnetic Radiation Deflector Shield (DERDS) provides a magnetic field that will deflect SEPs and CMEs and other harmful solar and cosmic rays away from a manned spacecraft, robotic spacecraft, or manned extra-planetary base stations using an electromagnet that is deployed between the spacecraft/station and the source of radiation and creates a magnetosphere or zone of minimal radiation in which the spacecraft or base station would reside.
Oubliez la fusée ! Voici le vrai problème mortel qui nous empêche d'aller sur Mars
Avant de poser le pied sur Mars, les astronautes devront terrasser un danger invisible qui relègue le problème de la fusée au second plan. Les rayons cosmiques traversent les cellules et l’ADN, et ils augmentent fortement le risque de maladies graves. Les scientifiques testent déjà des boucliers et des solutions biologiques pour réduire ces effets.
Radiation ☢️ -triggered #computer errors could lead to an "uncommanded" change in altitude 🛬 so severe that it might exceed "the aircraft's structural capability" 💥. As #computer chips have become smaller, they have also become more vulnerable to bit flips https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251201-how-cosmic-rays-grounded-thousands-of-aircraft
Intense #solar ☀️ #radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight ✈️ controls 🕹️ https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precautionary-fleet-action
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Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft
Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing problem.
The risks with #SpaceRadiation ☢️ are assigned the highest priority among all risks associated with #SpaceTravel. Active shielding 🛡️ methods, which use #electromagnetic fields to deflect charged particles, can make #DeepSpace 🌌 travel safer and more feasible. Placing the passive shielding before the active shielding is more effective than placing the identical active shielding before the passive shielding of the same thickness https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552423000391
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Le sauvetage incroyable de l'instrument de la sonde Juno par la Nasa à des millions de kilomètres
Les missions spatiales sont souvent pleines de péripéties, de petits incidents qui nécessitent de l'audace et de l'ingéniosité. Ici, c'est la sonde Juno dont la Nasa a dû réparer l'imageur à près de 600 millions de kilomètres de distance.
This Superbacteria can Withstand Enough Radiation to Kill a Person
Nature is filled with examples of extreme life (aka. extremophiles), which are so-called because they can withstand extreme conditions. These include organisms that can survive in extremely dry conditions, extreme temperatures, acidity, pressure, and even the vacuum of space. The study of these organisms not only helps scientists learn more about the kinds of environments … Continue reading "This Superbacteria can Withstand Enough Radiation to Kill a Person"
How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation
#ActiveShielding #SpaceRadiation
"Using active shields that deflect charged particles just like the Earth’s magnetic field does—was first proposed in the 1960s. Today, we’re finally close to making it work."
Ars Technica:
Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable
"Active shielding was first proposed in the '60s. We’re finally close to making it work."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/shields-up-new-ideas-might-make-active-shielding-viable/
Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable
Active shielding was first proposed in the '60s. We’re finally close to making it work.
“There’re a lot of hazards we don’t know about. In #LEO, we are protected by our #magnetosphere from #SpaceRadiation. If we go outside of that, all of the sudden we have #galactic #CosmicRays ☢️ we have to deal with, we have a lot of #SolarParticles we have to deal with and we also have variable #gravity”. Even a short flight beyond #ISS altitude impacts various aspects of human physiology and #microbiome 🦠 composition. https://asm.org/Articles/2022/October/Out-of-This-World-Microbes-in-Space
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Out of This World: Microbes in Space | ASM.org
When humans go to space, microbes go with them. Researchers are learning how space impacts the microbes living in, on and around astronauts—and how they can be used to advance future missions.
#Nature 📆 August 2022 #SpaceRadiation and exposure risk reduction. Shielding performances of potential materials #aluminum (Al), #polyethylene (PE), and carbon fiber reinforced plastic (#CFRP). The effective dose equivalent was reduced by 50% 〽️ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-17079-1
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Considerations for practical dose equivalent assessment of space radiation and exposure risk reduction in deep space - Scientific Reports
Shielding from space radiation, especially galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), is a significant safety challenge for future human activities in deep space. In this study, the shielding performances of potential materials [aluminum (Al), polyethylene (PE), and carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP)] were investigated using Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation considering two types of biological scale parameters, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) quality factor (QFICRP) and the plausible biological effectiveness (RBEγacute), for GCRs. The effective dose equivalent was reduced by 50% for QFICRP and 38% for RBEγacute when shielding using 20 g/cm2 of CFRP. A spacecraft made from CFRP will have a better radiation shielding performance than conventional Al-based spacecraft. The contribution of heavy ions for QFICRP based effective dose equivalent was larger by a factor of ~ 3 compared to that for RBEγacute based effective dose equivalent. The shielding materials efficiently reduced the effective dose equivalent due to ions with QFICRP > 3.36 and RBEγacute > 2.26. QFICRP and RBEγacute have advantages and disadvantages in quantifying the dose equivalent of space radiation, and the establishment of a standard parameter specified for a mixed radiation environment occupied by protons and heavy ions is necessary for practical dose assessment in deep space.
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