SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AEROSPACE REPORTS

A Biweekly Publication of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
VOLUME 44, ISSUE 3 - February 10, 2006

12 ASTRONAUTICS (GENERAL)
Includes general research topics related to space flight and manned and unmanned space vehicles, platforms or objects launched into, or assembled in, outer space; and related components and equipment.

Also includes manufacturing and maintenance of such vehicles or platforms.

For specific topics in astronautics see categories 13 through 20.

For extraterrestrial exploration see 91 Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration.

20060003952 Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY USA

Event Driven Automatic State Modification of BNL's Booster for NASA Space Radiation Laboratory Solar Particle Simulator

Brown, K.; Binello, S.; Harvey, M.; Morris, J.; January 2005; 10 pp.; In English Report No.(s): DE2005-15016276; BNL-73448; No Copyright; Avail.: Department of Energy Information Bridge

The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) was constructed in collaboration with NASA for the purpose of performing radiation effect studies for the NASA space program. The NSRL makes use of heavy ions in the range of 0.05 to 3 GeV/n slow extracted from BNL's AGS Booster. NASA is interested in reproducing the energy spectrum from a solar flare in the space environment for a single ion species. To do this we have built and tested a set of software tools which allow the state of the Booster and the NSRL beam line to be changed automatically. In this report we will describe the system and present results of beam tests. NTIS

Extraterrestrial Radiation; Heavy Ions; Solar Simulators

Source: NASA