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Customized training courses in space science

SCK CEN - Ruimte (2019)

Offer

SCK CEN plays an important role in the pioneering research to enable space exploration and future long duration human space travel, for example to the Moon or Mars. Our scientists investigate, together with a large consortium of international experts, solutions for the challenges of space travel, including the exposure to cosmic radiation. The findings of this research are translated into courses for students and professionals dealing with space applications.

Theoretical lectures are complemented by a number of practical session in the biology, dosimetry and material analysis laboratories. Visits to related facilities are also introduced.

SCK CEN - Ruimte (2019)

Target audience

Our education and training courses on space- related issues are targeted towards a broad audience such as pupils and their teachers, university students and professionals dealing with space applications.

Available modules

  • The daily dose of ionising radiation in space is much higher than on earth, and has a severe impact on the human body and the living environment in space. This module describes the characteristics of the indoor and outdoor space radiation environment, including space weather, and the challenges this brings for space exploration.

  • This part deals with units, doses, dose responses, LET, and RBE in radiation monitoring and radiation protection. It informs about measurement and simulation techniques used to characterize ionizing radiation in space, both inside and outside the space vehicles. It discusses the measurement systems suitable to be used under space conditions and the optimal shielding applications.

  • Space travel has a severe impact on the human body. In this module the effects of radiation, as well as other stress factors such as weightlessness and longterm confinement, on the human body are discusses. Both cancer as well as non-cancer effects are treated.

  • Assuring a healthy environment in the spacecraft is essential, even while continuously exposed to radiation. Also the safe supply of oxygen, water and food, and efficient waste removal, in the remote confined space habitat is a challenge. This section enlightens the current international biotechnological developments  addressing these needs.

  • Radiation does not only affect the living material, it also has an effect on supplies, instruments and materials used in space. This module provides an insight in  the relevant material sciences with applications in space.

SCK CEN - Ruimte (2019)

Technical visits

  • Radiobiology and microbiology laboratories 
  • Dosimetry and nuclear calibration laboratories
  • Anthropogammametry laboratory
  • Alpha, beta and gamma spectroscopy laboratory
  • Radioactive decontamination wing of the medical services
SCK CEN - Opleiding bij Academy (2019)

Space summer school

We help teachers and students who wish to develop a space project or experiment, and we welcome BSc, MSc and PhD students for their thesis project or internship in our laboratories. We organize also a two-week space summer school treating in detail the themes mentioned above, focusing on the scientific  fundamentals and technical applications.

View the calendar for the next event or training course in space science.

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