Radiation dose rates in Space Shuttle as a function of atmospheric density

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 401-414

  Badhwar, Gautam D ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIATION BELTS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE STATIONS;

SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR MAXIMUM; SOLAR MINIMUM;

DOSIMETRY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; COSMIC RADIATION; FEMALE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; MANNED; MATHEMATICS; NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT DURATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ALTITUDE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; COSMIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0033237369     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(99)00067-0     Document Type: Article

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