It is an ESA funded project (Contract No. 16339/02/NL/FM) started in September 2002. The project is planned for 30 months. QinetiQ is the prime contractor. In addition there are five academic institutions managed by QinetiQ working in parallel on specific space science oriented subjects. Overall the project activities cover both Geant4 kernel developments and Geant4 based space applications.
Main Objectives:
- Review the potential energetic particle radiation effects on payloads of future ESA missions, science missions in particular.
- Identify radiation transport analysis requirements to quantify effects and thereby reduce risks for these missions.
- Develop Geant4 based applications for quantifying the specific radiation effects.
Other aims of the project are to support ESA and the European space science
community through the provision of information and tools to quantify the
risks to current and future missions from the natural radiation environment;
to help expand the utilisation of Geant4 within the European space science
community, and make Geant4 the preferred tool for space radiation effects
analysis; to strengthen the collaboration between ESA and CERN, established
in 1998, and between ESA and the Geant4 consortium.
