Only a few days after the Russian-Hungarian Space Seminar organized by the Russian Cultural Center in Budapest (where Julianna Szabó and Attila Hirn from our group presented results of their Russian-Hungarian space cooperation) specialists Vyacheslav Shurshakov and Olga Ivanova from the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences and Gennady Shmatov and Olga Gorokhova from the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia visited our institute between the 14th and 17th May 2018.
The main purpose of the visit was the first acceptance review of the new type of Pille thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) with reduced self-shielding. Besides that developments regarding the following joint projects have been discussed:
- – passive detector packages comprising TLDs and plastic nuclear track etch detectors in the biological experiment Phoenix and the dosimetry experiment TRITEL-RS on board the International Space Station (ISS);
- – the 3D silicon detector dosimetry telescope TRITEL on board the Zvezda module of the ISS;
- – the LINTEL-P and LINTEL-N telescopes to be developed for measuring charged particles and thermal neutrons inside an anthropomorphic phantom on ISS (Matroshka-III experiment);
- – special container to be developed for measuring depth-dose inside the Matroshka phantom with the new type of Pille dosimeters;
- – manufacturing of a back-up Pille reader for the new Pille reader that is going to be delivered to the ISS in June 2018;
- – participation in the recoverable biological satellite programme BION-M2 with the dosimetry telescope TRITEL-B.
Group photo at the MTA EK: Julianna Szabó (MTA EK), Olga Gorokhova (RSC Energia), István Apáthy (REMRED Ltd.), Attila Hirn (MTA EK), Olga Ivanova and Vyacheslav Shurshakov (IBMP) and Gennady Shmatov (RSC Energia)
Attila Hirn
Head of MTA EK SVL Space Dosimetry Research Group
Participation in our Russian-Hungarian joint space research projects in 2017 was funded by the Government of Hungary, contract number IKF/694/2017-NFM_SZERZ.