Mars radiation risk assessment and shielding design for long-term exposure to ionizing space radiation

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tripathi, Ram K ^a   Nealy, John E ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-EFFECTIVE DESIGN; CRITICAL DESIGN; DEEP SPACE; DEEP-SPACE EXPLORATION; DEEP-SPACE MISSIONS; GALACTIC COSMIC RADIATION; HUMAN MISSIONS; LONG DURATION; LONG DURATION MISSIONS; LONG-TERM EXPOSURE; MARS MISSIONS; MARS RADIATION; OPTIMIZATION PROCESSES; RADIATION EXPOSURES; ROBOTIC MISSIONS; SHIELD DESIGN; SHIELDING DESIGN; SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS; SPACE MISSIONS; SPACE RADIATIONS; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; SWING-BY; VISION FOR SPACE EXPLORATION;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; COSMOLOGY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNAR MISSIONS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RADIATION; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIATION SHIELDING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SPACE RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

EID: 49349115116     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2008.4526513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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