Secondary radiation environments in heavy space vehicles and instruments

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 53-58

  Dyer, C S ^a   Truscott, P R ^a   Evans, H ^a   Sims, A J ^a   Hammond, N ^b   Comber, C ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDS(UK)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON; SODIUM IODIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MANNED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; STS-48 SHUTTLE PROJECT; STS-56 SHUTTLE PROJECT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-48 SHUTTLE PROJECT; STS-56 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PROTONS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; SODIUM IODIDE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0030309446     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0273-1177(95)00512-D     Document Type: Article

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