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Spacecraft Shielding

The use of materials such as stainless steel and aluminum alloys to shield spacecraft from radiation.

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Jan 31, 2026
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How do spacecraft and astronauts protect against radiation when crossing the Van Allen belts?

Spacecraft and crews manage radiation with a three-pronged strategy: avoid the worst of it by smart trajectories and timing, ride inside to stop many particle types, and limit exposure with mission ru...

Jan 29, 2026

Have recent missions or studies changed our understanding of the Van Allen belts' danger to lunar travel?

Recent unmanned missions and studies have sharpened the picture of the belts as a dynamic, sometimes intense radiation environment that poses a real but manageable hazard to ; they have not suddenly m...

Jan 27, 2026

Does friction cause the rise in surface temperature when a spacecraft reenters the atmosphere?

Friction in the everyday sense—molecules rubbing directly against a surface—is not the primary agent that during ; instead, the dominant heating comes from rapid compression and shock-layer processes ...

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