A team of scientists from Italy and Germany has tested permanent magnet radiation shielding for spacecraft, packing 1,482 neodymium-iron-boron magnets into an array that deflected 20% of solar particles. Unlike superconducting magnets, the setup needs no cryogenic cooling or fail-safe power. It arrives as Nasa weighs deep space radiation protection for Mars and Artemis missions, where a 1972 solar flare between Apollo 16 and 17 would have delivered a fatal dose to lunar astronauts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A team of scientists from Italy and Germany has tested permanent magnet radiation shielding for spacecraft, packing 1,482 neodymium-iron-boron magnets into an array that deflected 20% of solar particles. Unlike superconducting magnets, the setup needs no cryogenic cooling or fail-safe power. It arrives as Nasa weighs deep space radiation protection for Mars and Artemis missions,… Read More »Scientists may finally have answer to problem that would have killed anyone standing on Moon in 1972<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":124757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}