Browsing Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering by Author "Kroupa, Martin"

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Battery-operated Independent Radiation Detector Data Report from Exploration Flight Test 1

Bahadori, Amir A.; Semones, Edward J.; Gaza, Ramona; Kroupa, Martin; Rios, Ryan R.; Stoffle, Nicholas N.; Campbell-Ricketts, Thomas; Pinsky, Lawrence S.; Turecek, Daniel

This report summarizes the data acquired by the Battery-operated Independent Radiation Detector (BIRD) during Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1). The BIRD, consisting of two redundant subsystems isolated electronically from ...
Slowing-down and stopped charged particles cause angular dependence for absorbed dose measurements

Bahadori, Amir A.; Pal Chowdhury, Rajarshi; Kroupa, Martin; Campbell-Ricketts, Thomas; Firan, Ana; Fry, Dan J.; Gaza, Ramona; George, Stuart P.; Pinsky, Lawrence S.; Stoffle, Nicholas N.; Rios, Ryan R.; Zeitlin, Cary J. (2018)

The space radiation environment is dominated by heavy charged particles with atomic numbers ranging from 1 to 93, with broad energy spectra that exceed 10 GeV per nucleon. Despite advances in space radiation modeling and ...