A Deployable High Temperature Superconducting Coil (DHTSC): A Novel Concept For Producing Magnetic Shields Against Both Solar Flare And Galactic Radiation During Manned Interplanetary Missions
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F. H. Cocks. (1991), JBIS, 44, pp.99-102
Refcode: 1991.44.99
Abstract:
The advent of high critical temperature superconductors makes practical the possibility of using deployable magnetic shield coils to provide protection against solar flare radiation during manned interplanetary missions. Such deployed coils can be enormous in size and hence can produce the very large magnetic moments upon which the degree of protection depends, without the need for intense local fields and concomitant high current levels. The structural and safety problems associated with high fields and currents are thus minimized in deployable high temperature superconduction coil (DHTSC) magnetic shields. Very large volume, low intensity magnetic fields would give protection analogous to that given by the low intensity, extremely large volume field which shields the Earth.
