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Flexible 3D-Printable Shielding for Extreme Environments

Universe Today·Laurence Tognetti, MSc·about 1 month ago
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You’re based at Artemis Station on the lunar south pole, and you’re monitoring your 12 autonomous rovers that are exploring the surrounding terrain for signs of water ice or other essentials minerals. They’re about 3 kilometers out when you suddenly get a NASA Alert for an incoming solar storm. You know the rovers won’t return to base before the storm hits, but you’re calm knowing the rovers all recently got retrofitted with the latest hair-thin nanotube shielding to protect them from the harsh electromagnetic waves and radiation. While this scenario is likely years away, this isn’t stopping present-day researchers led by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) from pushing the limits of shielding technologies for electronics on Earth and in space.…

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