The Space Research Department of the Centre for Energy Research, together with REMRED Ltd., has been awarded the contract to develop the Internal Dosimetry Array for the Gateway, following an open competition by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The Gateway space station, to be built in orbit around the Moon in the mid-2020s, will not be protected by the Earth’s magnetic field or the atmosphere; hence, astronauts could be exposed to up to 700 times the radiation dose of an average human on Earth from space radiation. Therefore, Gateway will be provided with a radiation shield and the dose to the crew will be monitored continuously. The Internal Dosimetry Array (IDA) experiment of ESA will serve for the latter. It is a great recognition for the Hungarian space industry that the international consortium developing and manufacturing the IDA experimental module will be led by the Centre for Energy Research in Budapest, Hungary. The Central unit of the system is being developed by REMRED Ltd., which is one of the most significant technological developments for the Hungarian space industry.
For more information contact the offical webpage of the Centre for Energy Research and the Eötvös Loránd Research Network.