Space Shuttle drops down the SAA doses on ISS

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2030-2038

  Dachev, T P ^a   Semkova, J ^a   Tomov, B ^a   Matviichuk, Yu ^a   Dimitrov, Pl ^a   Koleva, R ^a   Malchev, St ^a   Reitz, G ^b   Horneck, G ^b   De Angelis, G ^b   Hader D P ^c   Petrov, V ^d   Shurshakov, V ^d   Benghin, V ^d   Chernykh, I ^d   Drobyshev, S ^d   Bankov, N G ^a  

^a Faculty of Physics Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski   (Bulgaria)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; ISS; Radiation measurements; Space radiation; Space Shuttle

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; DOCKING; DOSIMETRY; DROPS; SHIELDING; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE STATIONS;

GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; LONG TERM ANALYSIS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALIES; SPACE RADIATIONS; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOM;

EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79955467651     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.01.034     Document Type: Article

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