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 in the frame of the ASGARD@spacepole activity on May 15, 2025.
Credits
- SPENVIS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trajectory file | TXT | Open resource | |
| Reports (auxillary) | HTML | Open resource | |
| Plots (auxillary) | PNG | Open resource | |
| Exercise corrected | Open resource | ||
| TLE data (auxillary) | TXT | Open resource | |
| Instructions | Open resource |
Tags
- air-composition
- air-quality
- atmosphere
- cci
- climate-data-record
- copernicus
- esa
- gome
- gome-2
- hcho-formaldehyde
- human-spaceflight
- mars
- o3-ozone
- observed-data
- outreach
- planetary-aeronomy
- planetary-atmospheres
- planetology
- qa4ecv
- radiation-dose
- remote-sensing
- roadmap
- sciamachy
- sentinel-5p
- solar-occultations
- space-environment
- spenvis
- troposphere
- tropospheric-ozone-precursors