Searching for great books on radioprotection

[Osprey64]

Hello everyone,

I am preparing my internship which will cover one of the next ESA's F-Class probe radiation shielding.

I have basically no knowledge on space environment, space radiation or anything related to radioprotection. My knowledge on electrodynamics and particle physics is also very (veryyyy) limited. (I am in my first year of master's degree btw).

First of all, I do not know where I should focus my efforts : on electrodynamics ? paticle physics ? monte carlo methods for particle transport ?...

Then, I do not know which books I should buy to get a good theoretical knowledge base. To give an example related to my field : Fundamentals of Aerodynamics from Anderson is a GREAT book for everyone willing to start working on aerodynamics, and my dream book would be something similar.

I already bought "The Space Environment and Its Effects on Space Systems", from Pisacane, but I find it to be way too general...

Thank you very much for your help!

 

[Sparweb]

Welcome to Eng-Tips Osprey,
Be careful with site rules. Posting student work is not allowed. Since you say this is for your internship, and it's at face value a request for technical references, it's not a red flag. Keep an open mind about the coming replies and you'll be able to discern the different between teaching yourself something VS. expecting others to explain it to you.

Anyway.
Since you have Anderson's for the aerodynamics you can skip to the last few chapters for the environment you're interested in. There are other books, I'm sure, but nothing I have ever worked on went above 50,000 feet so hopefully others can chime in to suggest resources that will be more applicable to what you need.

There is a body of knowledge and standard practices for spacecraft design which has been built by NASA, ESA and others that should be available to you as an intern. For your own research, remember that these bodies publish their reports to the public, and most of it does not require a subscription or purchase. On the other hand, world militaries have also developed their own standards. Surprisingly, some of that's available to the public, too.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/

They claim about 1/2 million reports there.
Do your searching with a clear understanding when the information you seek was published in the 1960's, and some of it needs to come from last year, and know the difference.
The terms "radiation low earth orbit" offers about 24,000 results. You'll have to be more specific.

ESA... "F-class"... Comet interceptor??

http://www.sparweb.ca

 

[verymadmac]

I guess you have found the relevant ECSS documents

https://ecss.nl/hbs/active-handbooks/

 

[Osprey64]

Dear SparWeb and verymadmac,

Thank you for your answers, I really appreciate it.

I understand sharing my work is not allowed here. Internships are here to teach us our job, and it would have been very sad to let someone more experienced do it for you. You can be sure I am doing my own research, but getting some help like you just did is always appreciated. Thank you.

You're right, it is about Comet Interceptor. As it will stay at L2 lagrange point for an undetermined amount of time waiting for a (if possible pristine) comet, it will need quite a tough radiation shielding. But as for now, I do not have any more information. As I said, I am at the very beginning of my internship preparation.

verymadmac, thank you for your link. There is indeed a great article there on radiation doses calculation.

Thank you for your help!