SPARC

SPARC has been awarded a contract by European Space Agency in response to the “Real-Time Assessment of Radiation Environments on Gateway” tender.

The Lunar Gateway Unified Aggregated Datasets (L-GUARD) project – our contribution to safer lunar exploration – will develop sophisticated radiation data processing schemes tailored to the radiation sensors on-board the Lunar Gateway. By combining data from the European Radiation Sensor Array (ERSA) and the Internal Dosimeter Array (IDA), we're working to provide astronauts and mission teams with precise and reliable products associated with the radiation environment encountered along Lunar Gateway’s orbit.

We're collaborating with a highly skilled consortium consisting of national research institutes, universities and SMEs:

-Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)
-German Aerospace Center/Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
-SE2S GmbH (SE2S)
-Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical -University (IEAP CTU)
-HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research (HUN-REN EK)
-Kallisto Consultancy (Kallisto)
-Aboa Space Research Oy (ASRO)
-TRAD Tests & Radiations (TRAD)
-DH Consultancy BV (DHC)



Each partner brings their expertise in radiation instrumentation, radiation detection and data analysis. Through this focused collaboration, L-GUARD will make a significant contribution to astronaut safety and mission success in the radiation environment encountered by Lunar Gateway in its near-rectilinear halo orbit.

SPARC team members delivered 3 oral presentations, convened one conference session and contributed in several poster presentations at the European Space Weather Week in ,

Looking forward to the next ESWW meeting in

Shockwaves ripple across the glare as a launch eclipses the setting Sun in this exciting close-up. Captured on September 17, the roaring Falcon 9 rocket carried European Galileo L13 navigation satellites to medium Earth orbit after a lift-off from Cape Canaveral on Florida's space coast. The Falcon 9 booster returned safely to Earth about 8.5 minutes later, notching the 22nd launch and landing for the reusable workhorse launch vehicle. But where did it land? Just Read the Instructions.

Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)