Space Environment

• • The sun and solar wind; radiation in the solar system
  • Solar Flares, coronal mass ejections, sunspots and their effects
  • Radiation on unshielded instruments in near and far space environments
  • Space weather comparison on 2 bodies at different distances

Others

Students must have a Bachelor Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) discipline with a minimum completion of high school mathematics.

Additional requirements

• Equipment requirements - Audio video equipment required. Provide communication method.

Space weather in the Solar System includes the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field found in solar wind plasma. This subject will define these phenomena, describe the origin in the context of the Sun and consider the array of destructive effects they cause on spacecraft, instrumentation and/or planetary bodies. The subject will cover solar flares, coronal mass ejections, the solar wind, and the plasma that makes up the solar wind. We will cover mitigation efforts, both natural – Earth’s magnetosphere- and synthetic – radiation hardening techniques, that can be used to minimise or prevent damage.

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• Report (40%)
• Test (30%)
• Analysis (30%)

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