universetoday.com - 11/4/2008
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British scientists invent "mini-magnetosphere" to protect astronauts during solar storms.
Space travel during a solar storm just became a little less risky. UK scientists working at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford and the universities of York and Strathclyde have tested a ...
unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com - 11/5/2008
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unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com —
Here's a handy gadget that all spaceships will
need: 'a system no bigger than a large desk...
that uses the same energy as an electric kettle' to deflect those pesky high-energy ions from solar flares that make manned spaceflights so hazardous. Invented ...
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Deflector Shield
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Deflector Shield
Earth and other unlikely worlds —
Here's a handy gadget that all spaceships will need: 'a system no bigger than a large desk that uses the same energy as an electric kettle' to deflect those pesky high-energy ions from solar flares that make manned spaceflights so hazardous. Invented by British scientists, who no doubt are now devising away to use the energy of cosmic rays to make tea.
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... Chalk one up for us Brits in the space tech column; boffins at the Rutherford Appleton Labs have developed a ‘mini-magnetosphere’ that could well protect astronauts in spacecraft from harmful solar radiation: ...
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Bowing to the Future —
Via Paul McAuley, a piece on Universe Today stating: UK scientists working at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford and the universities of York and Strathclyde have tested a "mini-magnetosphere" enveloping a model spacecraft in the lab. It turns out that their prototype offers almost total protection against high energy solar particles. Deflector shields are a reality. Awesome.
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