Hybrid Material for Radiation Protection in Lunar Environment

Yves Gourinat (1) , Yulia Akisheva (2) , Aidan Cowley (3, 4, 5) , Laure Boyer (6) , Alexis Paillet (7)

1 ICA - Institut Clément Ader
2 ISAE-SUPAERO - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace
3 European Astronaut Centre - ESA/EAC (GERMANY)
4 UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Barcelona]
5 ETSEIB - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona [Barcelona]
6 MEDES - Institut de Médecine et de Physiologie Spatiales
7 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]

In the context of an overview of radiation as the prime showstopper of human deep space exploration and a regolith-based material as a candidate for protection, this synthetic paper presents an original possible technology for hybrid hybrid protectionwall. This concept takes advantage of different elements available on site in a planetary base, in particular in the lunar regolith.

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Materials

Yves Gourinat, Yulia Akisheva, Aidan Cowley, Laure Boyer, Alexis Paillet. Hybrid Material for Radiation Protection in Lunar Environment. Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2022, 43 (4), pp.006931. ⟨10.26717/BJSTR.2022.43.006931⟩. ⟨hal-03968098⟩