Development of In-Situ Measuring Techniques and Synergetic Radiation of Materials for Space Application – An Introduction.

Abstract

Humans try to reach further into interplanetary space. This makes the development of novel technologies and materials necessary to further support life outside of Earths magnetosphere. At the Centre for Materials and Processes (MAPEX) Bremen, new materials to shield, sense and possibly harvest space radiation are developed, simulated and tested by three doctoral projects respectively. The latter, the here introduced project which includes the testing, will be conducted at and builds up on the already existing Complex Irradiation Facility (CIF) at DLRs Institute of Space Systems (IRS). The work aims for the validation of the developed materials through testing under simulated space radiation environment since the actual environment is rarely directly accessible during a technical development phase. For this purpose, it is intended to simultaneously use different corpuscular and electromagnetic radiation sources of the CIF.