Modular Architecture for the Measurement of Space Radiation

This technology provides the capability to detect radiation for both spacecraft and Earth based instruments. The technology is being developed on MEI’s Biomedical Engineering and Technical Assistance (BETA) contract at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Product features include radiation-hardened single-channel radiation-detection circuit; capability to more accurately differentiate among different types of energetic charged particles; distributed processing with local memory also allows identification of coincident detections by multiple radiation-detection boards; an in-system reprogrammability of radiation-detection firmware. MEI contributions included development of an easy-to-use graphical user interface, with point-and-click functionality; a control console application that provides several real-time displays; including detector Pulse Height Spectrum graph, coincident data XY Scatter plot, and historical event count tracking. These displays enable rapid system configuration and calibration from a remote site, if needed.

Points of Contact
Management: Barbara Pearson, 281-283-6200
Contract Administration: meiinfo@meitechinc.com, 281-283-6200

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