Meeting the Grand Challenge of Protecting Astronaut’s Health: Electrostatic Active Space Radiation Shielding for Deep Space Missions

Ram Tripathi
NASA Langley Research Center

NIAC 2011 Tripathi Meeting the Grand Challenge of Protecting Astronaut’s Health Final Report

This study will seek to test and validate an electrostatic gossamer structure to provide radiation shielding. It will provide guidelines for energy requirements, dose reduction and deflection efficiencies, and effective enhancements of dual electrostatic-passive (material) shielding technologies, and ‘engineering-feasible’ architectures.

2011 Phase I and Phase II Selections