The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft will be launched from Baykonur today. Besides astronaut Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (ESA), cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and several scientific instruments, the dosimeters prepared by MTA EK are also on board and ready to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS).
This will be the eleventh increment of ESA’s DOSIS-3D experiment aiming at mapping the radiation environment inside the Columbus module of the ISS. The programme is realized in wide international cooperation under the scientific coordination of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). In the frame of the experiment series, dosimetry measurements are performed at 11 different positions inside the European module with combined dosimeter packages, comprising thermoluminescent and solid state track-etched detectors.
Locations of the DOSIS-3D detectors inside the Columbus module (Credits: NASA/ESA)
For more information on the DOSIS-3D programme visit its official NASA mission page.