November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
... the structure is nitrogen. Most of the mass is in radiation shielding and soil, five percent is composed of structural steel and one ...mostly from inside the convenience of their radiation-shielded rotating habitat, but spacewalks could be used ...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... spacecraft that will never see direct sunlight. The heat shield is critical in keeping the spacecraft protected from the extremely... to see the fearsome solar disc. So, the he at shield has built-in apertures, known as feed-throughs, that allow solar...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... surface with little protection, at least until the first shielded structures have been completed. These structures will likely have ... standards, it should be possible to build sufficiently shielded habitats on the Moon or Mars without the builders...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
..., Galvorn film applied over cables and wires would shield them from electromagnetic interference. Galvorn cables are 40 ...need everything from food containers to clothing, spacesuits, heat shields and much more. Technical textiles help to fulfil these ...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
... in space. With a trip to Mars taking around 6 months, minimising that risk is of utmost importance as there is only so much shielding a spaceship can be fitted with before it gets too heavy and expensive to launch. There is no way to combat space...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
...is applied on top of the solar cell, and acts as a shield to stop or slow down particles before they can impact the sensitive ...results shown in Figure 2 assume a level of shielding typical of geostationary satellites. Whilst the degradation may...
