{"id":17497,"date":"2026-09-01T12:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17497"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:48:40","slug":"astrorad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/astrorad\/","title":{"rendered":"AstroRad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>AstroRad Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Israeli company named StemRad has, along with Lockheed Martin, recently developed a vest called AstroRad for spaceflight. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About AstroRad<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>wearable, radiation-shielding vest <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">designed for<\/span><b> space travel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the <\/span><b>Israeli company named StemRad<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with support from the <\/span><b>Israel Space Agency <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Lockheed Martin.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>protects astronauts&#8217; vital organs from dangerous space radiation beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/low-earth-orbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">low-Earth orbit (LEO)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span><b> reduces Radiation Exposure Induced Death (REID) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">while eliminating the possibility of Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) due to solar particle events.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>AstroRad <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AstroRad uses a <\/span><b>proprietary smart shielding design <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to <\/span><b>selectively protect <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">those <\/span><b>organs and tissues <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which are <\/span><b>most sensitive to radiation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terms of REID probability.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This approach provides the greatest biological impact of protection with the least amount of mass.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Tissue-weighting factors are assigned<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to organs and tissues in the body to reflect the variance in radiation sensitivity, with organs such as the <\/span><b>lungs, bone marrow, colon, stomach, breasts, and ovaries <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">being among the <\/span><b>most sensitive.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Selective protection of these organs, and tissue-resident stem cell concentrations<\/b> <b>within them<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was accomplished by designing variable shielding thickness to complement the body\u2019s own shielding.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>shielding <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the AstroRad comprises a <\/span><b>polymer with a high abundance of hydrogen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is advantageous for shielding against space radiation because it <\/span><b>minimizes the generation of secondary radiation.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Individual solid shielding elements<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are <\/span><b>organized into a scale-like architecture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to allow for <\/span><b>uninhibited, comfortable movement of the astronauts <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">while wearing the AstroRad.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/202188\/OPS\/G98GFJ9UE.1+GG5GFJEUJ.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AstroRad is a radiation-shielding vest developed by StemRad with Lockheed Martin to protect astronauts from harmful space radiation beyond low-Earth orbit. 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