Project Cold Flare
Journal Article
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· Rev. Med. Aeronaut. Spatiale, v. 12, pp. 33-37
OSTI ID:4418645
Description and results of a project designed to measure solar proton and galactic background radiations at SST cruising altiludes, using RB-57F aircraft flying over routes at high geomagnetic latitudes are given. A radiation measuring device called the High Altitude Radiation Instrument System (HARIS) was designed, built, and flown in these aircraft during alert/scramble missions. The HARIS included a linear energy transfer spectrometer, a tissue equivalent ionization chamber, and a Geiger-- Muller tube, with data recorded on a digital magnetic tape recorder. A Concorde in-flight radiation warning device was also used in some of the flights. Solar proton radiation measurements showed maximum readings on absorbed dose rate of 1.0 mrad/hr and a dose equivalent rate of 2.0 mrem/hr. Cosmic background radiation data averaged 0.45 mrad/hr and 0.9 mrem/hr, respectively. (IAA)
- Research Organization:
- Office of Aviation Medicine, Washington, DC
- NSA Number:
- NSA-29-003246
- OSTI ID:
- 4418645
- Journal Information:
- Rev. Med. Aeronaut. Spatiale, v. 12, pp. 33-37, Journal Name: Rev. Med. Aeronaut. Spatiale, v. 12, pp. 33-37; ISSN RMASB
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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