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On Sunday, October 31, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission will set off with four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron together with European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer will await the launch sitting in SpaceX’s newly named Crew Dragon ‘Endurance’ spacecraft at the top of a Falcon-9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center.

During their half-year mission at the Space Station, they will assist in nearly 350 scientific experiments, including the installation of cosmic radiation detectors for the DOSIS-3D project. This will be the 19th mission of the series with a novelty: two identical sets of detector packages will be mounted inside the ISS. One of it will be fixed in the standard measuring positions of the European Columbus module, and the other set in different locations; the American Orbital Segment (USOS), the Leonardo module and Russian segment within the framework of Matthias Maurer's CosmicKiss mission. By measuring simultaneously in a standard assembly using the same type of detectors we can get a comprehensive picture of the space station's radiation field, which provides useful information for the protection of astronauts and the assessment of the actual condition of shielding. As in all missions, the DOSIS-3D passive dosimeter packages will contain the instruments provided by the EK Space Research Department.

Detectors of the DOSIS-3D/19 detector package by EK

Andrea Strádi