Sentences with phrase «radiation shield»

It should be possible to build radiation shields that allow objects to sit in fields without being affected by them.

It would receive most of the benefits of radiation shielding that ground - dwellers enjoy.

During the trip, asteroid - mined water could also be used as radiation shielding of the manned module to reduce the launch mass further.

Thermal radiation shielding is temporary and still results only in the same temperature as the source for all the shields and in between them.

How is radiation shielding designed?

Though its gumdrop shape and exterior look evokes memory of the Apollo spacecraft of four decades ago, Orion's developers at Lockheed Martin Space Systems have built all kinds of next - generation technologies into the spacecraft, including enhanced radiation shielding and a new generation of carbon - scrubbing technology to maintain the crew's breathable environment.

The discovery of the new radiation shielding protein reveals another trick these tough animals have up their sleeve.

With advance warning, satellite operators can switch off sensitive high - voltage electronics on their craft, astronauts can avoid space walks and even hide behind radiation shields, and planes can avoid polar routes.

As originally proposed, Junocam was to be a copy of the MSL MARDI instrument with additional radiation shielding and a «pushframe» color filter array in place of the «Bayer pattern» filters of MARDI.

Conventional metal radiation shielding won't provide enough protection and would add too much heft to spacecraft and spacesuits.

It will carry heavy radiation shielding to protect it from the dangerous particles zipping around Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.

«Is it possible that with aging and yellowing of the MMTS radiation shield that there is slightly more interior daytime heating causing recent MMTS readings to be more similar to LIG temperatures.

You tell me what business, what economy, what country can operate without air, water, food, energy, material, climate control regulation, an ultraviolet radiation shield, pollination, seed dispersal, water purification and distribution through the hydrological cycle, flood control, and insect control.

The gradualist approach we recommend will maximize the resilience of the program and let NASA concentrate on solving the truly hard problems, such as radiation shielding.

Thirty years ago, the Montreal Protocol was agreed to phase - out chemicals destroying the ozone layer, the UV - radiation shield in the Earth's stratosphere.

«Current levels of radiation shielding would, at best, modestly decrease the exposure risks.»

In the years after Tokaimura, Japan developed other nuclear disaster robots and imported Menhir, a large mobile unit built by France's Cybernetix that's equipped with radiation shielding, cameras, and a manipulator.

But even with some radiation shielding, only 2 to 9 percent of the fungi exposed to Martian conditions managed to reproduce and form colonies.

Hiding some 15 feet under the surface of Mars or the moon would provide all the radiation shielding of home.

The heart of the experiment is the enormous detector, which is shielded by three - foot - thick concrete walls that serve as a radiation shield.

The crew will need a module that will keep them alive for the duration of the trip, including all their food, radiation shielding, and a separate pod to protect them during the high - speed re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

Astronauts could drink the water or use it as a radiation shield.

Orbital data suggest that the polar rocks and craters are filled with water ice, which could be harvested for astronaut hydration, radiation shielding and even rocket fuel.

After several yearlong asteroid missions, incremental improvements to life - support systems and radiation shielding will pave the way to Mars.

Or it may be piled on top of a human habitat as a radiation shield.

If deemed necessary, countermeasures for immunity could include new types of radiation shielding, nutritional supplementation, pharmaceuticals and more.

The camera head includes a 58 degree FOV lens, a CCD detector with integral filter, and approximately 2 kilograms of radiation shielding.

The water around the reactor core serves as three things: a neutron moderator, meaning it slows down the fast neutrons released during fission, which then sustain the chain reaction; a cooling agent; and a radiation shield.

The physical configurations and nucleonics; radiation shielding and confinement; and structural designs of the canisters, casks, and other system components have sufficiently broad ranges of their controlling parameters to generally require only modest modification to accommodate the unique properties of the federal nuclear materials.

Typically, engineers would plot a course to avoid as much radiation as possible, beef up a spacecraft's radiation shielding and create circuits designed to detect when radiation is present.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a satellite image of a giant purple bruiselike gap in the planet's radiation shield must be worth 10,000.

Make this capsule in the same manner as dewar flasks — that is a vacuum layer between all the radiation shields; and,

At any rate the picture of room air (55 F in this case) evenly flowing into the whole surface of the absorber from front to back and cooling the first screen layer and acting as a radiation shield does not appear to be happening in this collector.

The advantages are said to be: 1) the pressure drop caused by the mesh spreads the airflow evenly over the full surface of the absorber, and 2) the first layer of mesh acts as a radiation shield to reduce the radiation from the hotter inner layers toward the glazing.

After one particularly frustrating afternoon trying to ignore her latest phone chat, I pounced, causing this to appear on her screen for exactly 5 seconds: Warning: The radiation shield in your monitor has failed.

Promoted to lead physicist for new department specializing in radiation shielding, assisting in its growth into the most profitable sector of the company.

Interviewed and trained support persons for creation of a radiation shielding plan review department.

For example, medical office buildings require elaborate HVAC systems, radiation shields and sound control.