Teach & Explore: Assessing Radiation Exposure for Astronauts on the Axiom-1 Commercial Spaceflight Mission

Hands-on exercise part of a toolkit introducing upper-secondary students to the hazardous space environment and its potential impact on astronauts. This exercise instructs the student in using the Space Environment Information System (SPENVIS) on-line tool to assess the equivalent dose received by astronauts during the commercial space mission Axiom-1.

Launched on April 8, 2022, 15:17 UTC from Kennedy Space Center, the mission placed the Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule into a low Earth orbit before docking with the International Space Station (ISS, inclination 51.7°, period ~93 minutes) on April 9, 2022, 12:29 UTC. After undocking on April 25, 2022, 01:10 UTC, the mission ended on September 18, 2021, 23:07 UTC, when the capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, near Florida.

The exercise was part of the student workshop on space radiation in the frame of the ASGARD@spacepole activity on May 15, 2025.

Credits

  • SPENVIS is a web-based tool developed and operated by the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy for the European Space Agency providing an integrated interface to models of the space environment and its effects.

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Messios, N., Kruglanski, M., & Kindarkhedia, D. (2025). Teach & Explore: Assessing Radiation Exposure for Astronauts on the Axiom-1 Commercial Spaceflight Mission (Version 1). Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/H7Q5UBGR
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Author(s)
Principal

Messios, Neophytos, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Other(s)

Kruglanski, Michelorcid, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy; Kindarkhedia, Dhiren, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy;
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https://doi.org/10.18758/s7fav4s5

Temporal features
Starting

April 8, 2022
Ending

April 25, 2022

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Repository homepage

https://data.aeronomie.be/dataset/
Last Updated

June 16, 2025
Created

June 10, 2025

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