| QinetiQ in association with SIRA
Electro-OpticsLtd and the University
of Southampton are conducting an investigation into and report on issues
of radiation environment effects on spacecraft components, electronics
and materials, and the benefits of mitigation strategies. This work will
lead to the specification of user requirements, and the development of
software tools to model in detail the interaction processes and quantify
the effects. Where appropriate, the Geant4
Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit will be used as the basis of predicting
the effects of shielding and interaction processes. This work will
be conducted in full collaboration with the Geant4 consortium. The
results of this work shall be radiation transport and analysis software
based on Geant4 with enhanced functionality for space radiation shielding
and effects studies.
The aim of this website is to keep the
space radiation effects community informed in order to promote the maximum
possible interchange of ideas and techniques.
This project is under contract (14968/00/NL/EC)
from ESTEC/ESA.
The programme started at the end of January 2001 and is expected to complete
by the end 2001. Final results will be delivered in a report and presented
to ESA.
Key Personnel
QinetiQ:
Pete
Truscott, Fan Lei, Clive
Dyer
SIRA:
Gordon
Hopkinson
University
of Southampton: Jon Lockley
ESTEC:
Petteri
Nieminen, Eamonn Daly |
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