Pre-engineering spaceflight validation of environmental models and the 2005 HZETRN simulation code

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1593-1610

  Nealy, J E ^a   Cucinotta, F A ^b   Wilson, J W ^c   Badavi, F F ^d   Dachev, Ts P ^e   Tomov, B T ^e   Walker, S A ^a   De Angelis, G ^a,f   Blattnig, S R ^c   Atwell, W ^g  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^f ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^g BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurements; Models; Shielding; Space radiation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ERROR ANALYSIS; SHIELDING;

ENGINEERING DESIGN; FLIGHT-TESTING; SPACE RADIATION;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 35549004622     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.12.029     Document Type: Article

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