Teach & Explore: Assessing Radiation Exposure for Astronauts on the Axiom-1 Commercial Spaceflight Mission

Description

Hands-on exercise part of a toolkit introducing upper-secondary students to the hazardous space environment and its potential impact on astronauts. This exercise instructs the student in using the Space Environment Information System (SPENVIS) on-line tool to assess the equivalent dose received by astronauts during the commercial space mission Axiom-1. Launched on April 8, 2022, 15:17 UTC from Kennedy Space Center, the mission placed the Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule into a low Earth orbit before docking with the International Space Station (ISS, inclination 51.7°, period ~93 minutes) on April 9, 2022, 12:29 UTC. After undocking on April 25, 2022, 01:10 UTC, the mission ended on September 18, 2021, 23:07 UTC, when the capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, near Florida. The exercise was part of the [student workshop on space radiation](https://doi.org/10.18758/s7fav4s5) in the frame of the ASGARD@spacepole activity on May 15, 2025. ### Credits * [SPENVIS](https://www.spenvis.oma.be/) is a web-based tool developed and operated by the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy for the European Space Agency providing an integrated interface to models of the space environment and its effects.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
34 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/010d0ba1-5dec-42e0-b2a2-e99810fb8ae4
74 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/010d0ba1-5dec-42e0-b2a2-e99810fb8ae4
74 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/010d0ba1-5dec-42e0-b2a2-e99810fb8ae4
21 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/010d0ba1-5dec-42e0-b2a2-e99810fb8ae4
33 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/010d0ba1-5dec-42e0-b2a2-e99810fb8ae4
33 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/010d0ba1-5dec-42e0-b2a2-e99810fb8ae4

Tags

  • solar-occultations
  • gome
  • cci
  • copernicus
  • sciamachy
  • atmosphere
  • roadmap
  • esa
  • troposphere
  • space-environment
  • human-spaceflight
  • air-composition
  • climate-data-record
  • spenvis
  • air-quality
  • observed-data
  • remote-sensing
  • hcho-formaldehyde
  • radiation-dose
  • gome-2
  • sentinel-5p
  • tropospheric-ozone-precursors
  • mars
  • outreach
  • qa4ecv
  • o3-ozone
  • planetology
  • planetary-atmospheres
  • planetary-aeronomy

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  • TECH

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