November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... called ‘high-energy, high-charge’ or ‘HZE’ (high atomic number and energy) particles in some literature. Active radiation shielding using high temperature superconducting magnets. Designed to protect A spaceship with a metal skin that uses plastic...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
...free electrons and sometimes neutrons to be generated. These particles go on to produce damage themselves in a process known as secondary radiation. Particulate radiation that comes from outside the Solar System rather than the Sun is called galactic...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... space exploration. While astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), at an altitude of about 400 km, are beyond the radiation protection of Earth’s atmosphere, they still enjoy the benefits provided by the magnetic field of Earth. But when...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... might make it as far as Mars only to go into kidney failure during the voyage home. Evidence of the impact of radiation on the human kidney is also available from many years of experience using radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer. If we could...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... measure and counteract the potentially dangerous impacts of radiation. Space radiation is the number one risk to astronaut health ... likely to be different for every mission. Space radiation can be divided into three distinct categories: particles ...
27 July 2020
Radiation-loving fungus could protect astronauts from cosmic rays
...plans to colonise other worlds, is therefore a top priority. Thankfully for those faced with a constant bombardment of space radiation, this problem might have just been solved, at least partially, as a team of US scientists have proposed a novel way...
