August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... radiation exposure, though anyone working on the Martian surface would need to remain close to appropriate shelters in case of solar storms or an intense SPE, for which a deep space SPE alert warning system would need to be created. Higher energy...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...more cost-effective space transportation systems such as solar powered electric propulsion. If one could develop ... create structures in space to defend our planet against extreme solar storms, and new types of space infrastructure to provide new forms...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...and natural disasters originating in space. Among these, I categorise the following seven as the most dangerous threats: Solar storms and flares, known as coronal mass ejections. Changes in Earth’s magnetosphere which result in the destruction of the...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... tools towards a sustainable future and has a record in raising awareness of emerging risks - including The Impact of Solar Storms on Power Systems published by Swiss Re in cooperation with Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) - and opportunities brought...
January 2023
LUNAR OASIS – architectural visions for an integrated lunar habitat
... to create a habitat with constant availability of water and solar energy, which can be converted and stored in a salt...units, it also provides a ‘safe haven’ in the event of a solar storm and the crew can shelter here for a few days. The location of ...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... power grids, bathe high-flying airplanes with radiation, disrupt satellites and even cause them to fail. Solar storms in space are also dangerous. If large enough doses of radiation are received by an unshielded astronaut, it can have fatal...
