PARIS - At the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and NASA signed an agreement to continue their long-standing and successful cooperation in space medicine research. A key area of focus is space radiation, which poses significant health risks to astronauts – particularly on exploration missions beyond low Earth orbit – increasing the likelihood of radiation-induced cancers and acute radiation sickness. Future astronaut missions are expected to become increasingly long in duration, and to protect them, effective shielding strategies are needed. Having already delivered valuable space-based measurement data on several occasions, DLR's M-42 radiation detector will now be further enhanced as both partners continue their collaboration with the 'M-42 extended' (M-42 EXT), the German Aerospace Center (DLR) reports. Continue reading original article.
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18 June 2025 -"To be able to develop effective protective measures against the impact of space radiation on the human body, comprehensive and coherent radiation measurements in open space are essential," says Anke Pagels-Kerp, Divisional Board Member for Space at DLR. "At the end of 2022, Artemis I carried 12,000 passive and 16 active detectors inside the Helga and Zohar mannequins, which flew on board the Orion spacecraft as part of DLR's MARE project. These provided a valuable dataset – the first continuous radiation measurements ever recorded beyond low Earth orbit. We are now excited to take the next step together with NASA and send our upgraded radiation detectors around the Moon on the Artemis II mission."
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