NASA Announces the Winners of its Second Payload Challenge! universetoday storybywill
– two MIT graduate students currently pursuing Ph.D. degrees in space systems engineering. Their concept is a miniaturized radiation detector that will help characterize the dangers of radiation exposure and absorption in the lunar environment. This is vital, considering that radiation is one of the greatest threats to long-duration missions and human habitation in space. an hour, roughly 200 times what people on Earth are exposed to .
Unfortunately, existing devices capable of making those measurements are too large and expensive for widespread deployment onTo address this, Haughwout and Murphy developed a miniaturized radiation measuring instrument for their µRAD concept. It has many of the same features as the radiation assessment detector on the Curiosity rover but with the size, weight, and power profile of a smaller exploration vehicle.
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