Re:A superconducting shield for astronauts
by InclinedPlane on Thursday August 06, 2015 @06:02PM
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This appears to be merely a mag-sail, but used as a radiation shield.
It seems to be in every way inferior to the m2p2 concept, which uses a mini-magnetosphere (instead of just a magnetic field) for the same purpose [1]. The advantage being that we could build and field such systems using existing technology at reasonable cost.
It seems to be in every way inferior to the m2p2 concept, which uses a mini-magnetosphere (instead of just a magnetic field) for the same purpose [1]. The advantage being that we could build and field such systems using existing technology at reasonable cost.
1: http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/space/M2P2/rad.shielding....