Teach & Explore: Assessing Radiation Exposure for Astronauts on the Polaris Dawn Private 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 Polaris Dawn. Launched on September 10, 2024, 09:24 UTC from Kennedy Space Center, the mission placed the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule into a low Earth orbit (inclination 51.7°, period ~106 minutes). The mission ended on September 15, 2024, 07:37 UTC, when the capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, near Dry Tortugas, 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
74 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/6b86e128-6dd7-4197-8d4b-e712c10a3fbc
74 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/6b86e128-6dd7-4197-8d4b-e712c10a3fbc
33 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/6b86e128-6dd7-4197-8d4b-e712c10a3fbc
21 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/6b86e128-6dd7-4197-8d4b-e712c10a3fbc
33 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/6b86e128-6dd7-4197-8d4b-e712c10a3fbc
34 https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/6b86e128-6dd7-4197-8d4b-e712c10a3fbc

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

Topics

  • TECH

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