Radiation Measurements aboard Spacelab 1

Details Radiation Measurements aboard Spacelab 1 Radiation Measurements aboard Spacelab 1

Jul 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984sci...225..224b&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 225, Issue 4658, pp. 224-226

Computer Science

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The radiation environment inside Spacelab 1 was measured by a set of passive radiation detectors distributed throughout the volume inside the module, in the access tunnel, and outside on the pallet. Measurements of the low-LET (linear energy transfer) component obtained from the thermoluminescence detectors ranged from 102 to 190 millirads, yielding an average low-LET dose rate of 11.2 millirads per day inside the module, about twice the low-LET dose rate measured on previous flights of the space shuttle. Because of the higher inclination of the orbit (57 degrees versus 28.5 degrees for previous shuttle flights), substantial fluxes of highly ionizing HZE particles (high charge and energy galactic cosmic rays) were observed, yielding an overall average mission dose-equivalent of about 150 millirems, more than three times higher that measured on previous shuttle missions.

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