As on July 9, 1962, the U.S. military dropped a 1.4-megaton nuclear bomb into low Earth orbit, high-energy electrons emitted from an exploded bomb by radioactive particles did not have the most beneficial impact on the world’s first communications satellites, partly damaging their electronics and making them useless. Solar panels with the most technically advanced items of the time. Such an event may be attributed to the effects of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War, if not for one “but” in the face of modern North Korea, which possesses nuclear missiles in the absence of space satellites. American scientists are trying to invent an efficient orbital “medicine” to shield themselves from the possible effects of radiation.
Radiation is harmful ionizing emitting that affects any biological life devastatingly. American scientists aim to send three space devices to our planet’s orbit, according to an article published on scicemag.org, with the intent of gathering data on how mankind can get rid of high-energy electrons trapped by the magnetic field of the planet. This process, called Radiation Belt Recovery (RBR), typically happens naturally when deep-space radio waves or Earth knock electrons trapped in Van Allen’s radiation belts into the upper atmosphere, where they rapidly lose energy, often causing auroras.
Scientists are already able to try to recover artificially by releasing radio waves in the Van Allen belt. To achieve such an ambitious task, U.S. scientists evaluated the antenna towers of the U.S. Navy Low-Frequency (VLF)-powerful military communications used to communicate with submarines. Each of these antennas has an significant mission-to relay VLF waves to Van Allen belts by using on-board detectors to calculate the deposited particles.
A team of Los Alamos scientists and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center are conducting a second experiment on deposition of particles at low frequency. Thus, the team plans to launch a sounding rocket in April 2021, carrying an experiment on the interaction of a plasma beam with a miniature accelerator, generating an electron beam that produces VLF waves that can pick up particles. Scientists assume that such a small electron accelerator can be a safer way of defending against radiation than a massive VLF antenna that approaches the size of a football field.
The third experiment, proposed by scientists, can be carried out as early as 2021, when the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory plans to launch a mission called “space turbulence measurements caused by a rocket.” A sounding rocket would travel into the ionosphere-a special atmospheric layer hundreds of kilometers high, packed with ions and electrons, tossing around 1.5 kilograms of barium atoms. These space cleaning will help humanity to shield itself from the repercussions of a nuclear explosion and could, among other things, protect future astronauts from the effects of high-energy electrons as the spacecraft reached the radiation belt danger zone.
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