Hardware design environments for NASA's Constellation Program-the Vision for Space Exploration program to design and build new vehicles for servicing low Earth orbit and the Moon and beyond-have been developed that are necessarily conservative in nature to assure robust hardware design and development required to build space systems which will meet operational goals in a wide range of space environments, This presentation will describe the rationale used to establish the space radiation and plasma design environments specified for a variety of applications including total ionizing radiation dose, dose rate effects, and spacecraft charging and will compare the design environments with "space weather" variability to evaluate the applicability of the design environments and potential vulnerabilities of the system to extreme space weather events.


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    Title :

    Using Space Weather Variability in Evaluation the Radiation Environment Specifications for NASA's Constellation Program


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting ; 2008 ; New Orleans, LA, United States


    Publication date :

    2008-01-20


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    NASA's Constellation Program

    Baumeister, Joseph | NTRS | 2009