Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA Selects Johns Hopkins APL to Investigate Space Radiation Effects on the Lunar Surface

APL has been awarded one of three new NASA science investigations designed to strengthen humanity’s understanding and ...
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Viruses may be more powerful in the International Space Station's microgravity environment

"Microgravity pushed evolution into corners of the phage we still don't fully understand" ...
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Predicting the radiation risk to ESA’s astronauts

European scientists have developed the most accurate method yet for predicting the doses of radiation that astronauts will receive aboard the orbiting European laboratory module, Columbus, attached to ...
Baylor College of Medicine

TRISH research on Fram2 Mission to advance space health research, exploration

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), a consortium led by Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Space Medicine with partners Caltech and MIT, announced today six human ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

A rare S4 radiation storm lit low-latitude auroras and tested space hardware

‘Wow, this is something really new,’ said Xinlin Li, describing what the instruments observed in Earth’s near-space environment after an earlier, stronger solar storm changed the planet’s radiation ...
SpaceNews

Radiation as a service: How the private sector can protect America’s space infrastructure

This time last year, United States government officials released details indicating Russia may be developing a space-based nuclear weapon system to target Western satellites. While a flagrant ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Radiation, Temperature, Power Challenges For Chips In Space

Mission-critical hardware used in space is not supposed to fail at all, because lives may be lost in addition to resources, availability, performance, and budgets. For space applications, failure can ...