February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
...order that a planet be habitable, is well entrenched in the astronomical community… It is hard to find the origins of the Jupiter as shield theory.’ The concept was popularised by the book Rare Earth by Ward and Brownlee [18]. In it the authors claim...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
...and energy) particles in some literature. Active radiation shielding using high temperature superconducting magnets. Designed to protect... the inside portion closest to the heat shield. Active shielding Engineers are working on several ways to protect...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... should explore another logical project that would provide a way to cope with climate change. Creating a radiation shield at L1 to modulate solar radiation so that x-rays and ultraviolet radiation could be reduced, would mitigate skin cancer threats...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... Planet Center and the UN-sanctioned International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), but it is inadequate, as is the so-called NEO Shield programme. The search process is currently designed to find asteroids that are 140 m across, but we know from...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
...through the Martian atmosphere, its ablator, or heat shield outer coating, burning away by design at temperatures ...it throughout its flight, are close to separating — that the heat shield is supposed to fall away. If that happens, he’ll have done ...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... a solution to the problem of radiation exposure; the shielding and launch weight restrictions for vehicles and habitats are simply...launch from Earth. Besides, vehicle and habitat shielding materials available today are ineffective at stopping some...
