April 2018
Developing Mars
... heat exchange technology supplies crews with treated hot water. Returning cold water serves as a massive transparent radiation shield and an architectural pressure-medium for dome habitats. Immense habs are practicable only with the resources...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... need to be maintained forever once deployed. The concept of a radiation shield to modulate solar rays is another matter entirely. This would be a shield to block a portion of the radiation and perhaps in selected wavelengths. The objective would...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... also maintain and mend hardware. The crew will operate mostly from inside the convenience of their radiation-shielded rotating habitat, but spacewalks could be used in exceptional cases. After completion, the megasatellite can grow exponentially...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
... a mission to last four years, average shielding of 10 centimetres of aluminum would be needed so that the allowed radiation risk limit would not be exceeded. “This...; Beating 1 Sievert: Optimal Radiation Shielding of Astronauts on a Mission to Mars
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...in orbit. A good solution, which originated from Lockheed Martin’s Mars Base Camp (2018), is to use fuel storage as a radiation shield. Microgravity, on the other hand, does not impair plant growth significantly, though it might slow it down. However...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... the information gathered, all while getting systematically smaller in size. ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli tests a personal radiation shielding garment onboard the ISS during Expedition 53 in November 2017. Water is used for its...
