Major environmental hazards confronting manned space flight are meteoroid damage to spacecraft and excessive biological doses to its crew from solar flares; combined influences of micrometeoroid and radiation environments on spacecraft design are analyzed; comparatively large weight penalties involved in providing adequate protection against these hazards stress importance of optimizing shield weights.


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    Title :

    Optimized protection against environmental hazards in space


    Additional title:

    Aerospace Eng


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Aerospace Engineering ; 21 , n 12 ; p 41-48


    Publication date :

    1962


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :