The Orion spacecraft will be launched with dosimeters of the Centre for Energy Research (EK) on board on top of the SLS rocket, as part of the first Artemis mission.
After a long time, we finally had the chance to have another face-to-face - or rather hybrid - consortium meeting in our most important ESA project.
Congratulations for Sándor Deme, external expert and consultant of the Centre for Energy Research, who was awarded the Zoltán Bay Award!
Our colleague Andrea Strádi will also be presenting at this year's Girls' Day career guidance day!
Balázs Zábori gave a presentation on Space Dosimetry – Hungarian Innovations at the UN COPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommittee meeting.
The Space Research Department of the Energy Science Research Centre is responsible for the development and coordination of the scientific and technological content of the HUNOR programme.
Among the world-changing Hungarian innovations, one can discover the space station instruments Pille and TRITEL used for measurement of radiation dose and the mock-up of the Internal Dosimetry Array (IDA)!
Adél Klára Malatinszky was awarded the second prize in the Statistical, Medical and Biophysics section of the Students’ Scientific Association (TDK) conference at the Faculty of Physics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 2021. Congratulations!
The Space Research Department of the Centre for Energy Research, together with REMRED Ltd., has been awarded the contract to develop the Internal Dosimetry Array for the Gateway, following an open competition by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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On August 17, 2021, at 03:47 CEST, the European Vega launcher successfully launched the VV19 mission, with the first version of RadMag on board.
The Space Research Department of the Centre for Energy Research was also represented at the sixth H-SPACE 2020 international conference.
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which was declared by the UN in order to raise the awareness of the gender bias in science.
Expedition 61 astronauts Christina Koch (NASA), Luca Parmitano (ESA), and cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov (Roscosmos) have just returned from the International Space Station this morning. Along with many other scientific equipments, they also retrieved the DOSIS-3D detectors as well, ending the 201-day mission, which was the 15th measurement period in the series of this international collaborative radiation monitoring experiment.
On the occasion of the Berlin Science Week and the Day of the Hungarian Science on the 5th of November the Embassy of Hungary in Berlin organized a Hungarian Space Research Symposium in Berlin.
The world’s largest international space congress was organized in Washington D.C this year, where our research group was also represented.
This year’s Day of Space Research was organized on the 17th October by the Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT) at the Headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Results of our research group were also presented.
Last Friday, the BME Cosmos Society Workshop Series, launched in September, continued with a visit in our Space Research Laboratory. The visit was organized by the Cosmos Society in the frame of the United Nations’ World Space Week.
Held for the third time, the Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA) provides an international platform for students and teachers to present their space educational activities internationally, both at secondary and university levels.
The Workshop on Radiation Monitoring for the International Space Station (WRMISS) was organised the 24th time between 3 and 6 September, this year in Athens.
The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to establish a distributed detector network for monitoring space weather (Distributed Space weather Sensor System, D3S). The D3S-RadMag instrument, under development at MTA EK, might be a key instrument to D3S in the future.
A Magyar Rendvédelmi Kar idei családi napján a KKM Űrkutatásért és Űrtevékenységért Felelős Főosztály külön űrkutatási sátorral vehetett részt, ahol az MTA EK Űrdozimetriai Kutatócsoport, illetve Űrkutatási Laboratórium is képviseltette magát. Pille, Farkas Berci, Rosetta Philae, Masat-1, SMOG-1 és még sok egyéb érdekesség várta a látogatókat.
Our research group also reported on the latest developments and results at this year’s Hungarian Space Research Forum.
"A day when the best companies, universities and research institutes of the country allow a glimpse behind the scenes." This year the MTA EK Space Research Laboratory also participated the initiative.
Thanks to the European Space Agency and the enthusiastic and humble work of many radio amateurs, anyone can now track the ESEO satellite and check the data sent by the orbiter in beacon signals.
After several weeks and months of excitement, the European Space Agency confirmed that all on-board subsystems of the ESEO student satellite are up and running, the orbiter is receiving telecommands and the in-orbit commissioning got underway.
As we reported earlier, NASA will also bring passive radiation detectors of our research group to the first uncrewed exploration mission to orbit around the Moon. Some new information has been released recently about the phantoms, in which the dose and the composition of the space radiation will be measured.
The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to establish a distributed detector network for monitoring space weather (Distributed Space weather Sensor System, D3S). The D3S-RadMag instrument, under development at MTA EK, might be a key instrument to D3S in the future.
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A few years ago, the Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT) and the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) launched a series of events, named Space Academy Club, primarily for the age group of 18-35. The last such event in 2018 took place on December 13, at the Eötvös Loránd University, where the second lecture was given by Boglárka Erdős, junior researcher of our group, with the title ESEO, the Student Space Program of the European Space Agency.
The RADCUBE satellite programme has approached the end of its design phase, by the end of which a final frozen design of the satellite, ready for being manufactured, had to be presented to ESA. The co-location meeting of the Critical Design Review was organised between 10–11 December 2018 at the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The ESEO Mission Control Centre managed by students of the University of Bologna, confirmed the acquisition of the first signal from ESEO. A first assessment of the ESEO telemetry seems to show nominal parameters. The satellite activated itself just after separation from the launch carrier and started transmitting at 22:21 CET.
SpaceX’s SSO-A mission with Falcon 9 lifted off today at 19:34 CET from US Vandenberg Air Force Base. One of the satellites carried by the launcher is ESEO realized in the framework of ESA Academy’s hands-on space programme ESEO managed by the ESA Education Office, with ESEO-TRITEL on board!
A workshop on ESEO Integration and Assembly was held in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, on the 18th of October, organized by the ESA Academy. The students had the chance to gain some insight about the final tests before the launch. Next day, the satellite was already on its way towards the United States and now it is waiting at US Vandenberg Air Force Base!
The nearly two-week-long thermo-vacuum tests of the ESEO satellite are already underway in the European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands!
Final integration of the European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO), with the TRITEL space radiation telescope on board, was successfully carried out during the summer by the Italian space industry company SITAEL. If the final tests will be passed successfully, the satellite can be delivered to the US at the end of October for a launch due in mid-November this year!
This year, the Capital of Sciences festival was organized on the 23rd of September 2018 at the Akvárium Klub in Budapest, where the Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences has also introduced itself. Visitors could acquaint themselves with the activities of our research group as well.
NASA’s first exploration mission, without a crew at this time, is due at the end of 2019 the earliest. Our group has been also invited to join the programme with passive dosimeters!
The development of the TRITEL instrument dedicated for space radiation and dosimetry measurements on the European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO) has come to its final stage.
The RADCUBE satellite programme is approaching the end of its design phase, by the end of which a final frozen design of the satellite, ready for being manufactured, shall be presented to ESA. On the 16th to the 17th of July, the responsible project officers from ESA visited Budapest for a progress meeting.
ISS Expedition 56, with a new Pille dosimeter system on board the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, was successfully delivered to ISS in June 2018. We have just been informed that commissioning of the new reader was successful and the cross-read-outs of the old and the new system are going on.
Hongmei Lei, science attaché of the People’s Republic of China visited our Space Research Laboratory, where we discussed the possible future co-operations.
Before opening the ESA Business Incubator Centre at the MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Director General Johann-Dietrich Wörner of ESA visited our Space Research Laboratory at MTA EK.
An international scientific conference was held in Moscow between June 13 and 15, 2018 for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the world-famous plasma physicist professor Konstantin I. Gringauz. Professor Gringauz also had a significant impact on the history of our research group.
With the help of the German Aerospace Center and ThinkSpace Consulting, you can now scan through the ISS Columbus module for DOSIS-3D dosimetry data, including data from our research group.
The Austrian Space Cooperation Days 2018 event is organized in Wiener Neustadt at the University of Applied Sciences between 7-8 June. Our research group is also represented.
The launch of ISS Expedition 56 is due on June 6, 2018 from Baikonur with astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA), cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and with the famous Hungarian Pille dosimeter system developed and manufactured by our research group.
The ESEO - Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Operations Training Course is an ESA Academy training course for university students where we had the chance to learn about the fatal challenges of operating spacecraft and also practice it in „real life” with planning and simulating a mission.
Specialists from the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences and the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia visited our institute.
It started with a phone call from the Soviet colleagues. Could we develop a thermoluminescent dosimeter system with an on-board reader for the flight of first Hungarian cosmonaut?
The second Symposium on Space Education Activities (SSEA) was opened yesterday at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). Our research group as well as our ESEO-TRITEL student team is represented at the European Space Agency’s education symposium.
Our Space Research Laboratory received wide media coverage last week. We appeared in national and commercial television and radio channels, national newspapers and news portals.
Our complex space research testing laboratory was solemnly opened today at the Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA EK). General Director Ákos Horváth (MTA EK), András Pócza, Head of the Department for ICT Regulation and Management at the Ministry of National Development (NFM), Attila Hirn, head of the Space Dosimetry Research Group, and Balázs Zábori, technical responsible for the MTA EK Space Research Laboratory welcomed the event.
The Polish space company Astronika develops the boom system necessary for the magnetic field measurements of the RADCUBE mission. This enables measurements outside the satellite structure.
We have just been informed by the colleagues at S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia that the new Pille Reader successfully passed the final acceptance tests in Moscow.
The results of some calibration experiments using passive radiation detectors have been published recently in the scientific journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, A. The main findings will be presented here.
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The Hungarian RADCUBE space weather microsatellite (CubeSat) project reached its first major milestone, the Preliminary Design Review (PDR), in December 2017.
For two months, space dosimetry telescope TRITEL has been in continuous operation on board the International Space Station (ISS). Passive detectors of the eleventh increment of ESA’s DOSIS-3D were retrieved two days ago and the new set is waiting for delivery to the ISS tomorrow!
Istvan Fehér, chemist, founder and former head of the Radiation Protection Department at KFKI, Development Lead of the first Pille thermoluminescent space dosimeter system, deceased on the 17th October 2017.
According to the plans, the launch of the Progress MS-07 cargo (ISS #68P mission) to the International Space Station, with the new interface unit of the TRITEL 3D space dosimetry system on board, developed by our research group, is due on 12 October 2017 from Baikonur.
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).
The European Space Agency (ESA) presented certificates in recognition of the outstanding contribution by three of our colleagues to the ESA Rosetta Mission.
RSC Energia specialists Gennady A. Shmatov and Igor D. Sturov, and Raisa V. Tolochek, specialist from the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences visited our research group between the 16th-19th May.
The Phoenix space experiment started in 2014 under the supervision of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Research Institute for Space Medicine of Russia, the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and the MTA EK Space Dosimetry Research Group, invited by the RAS. The purpose of the experiment is to investigate the impact of space radiation on genetic properties and survival of biological samples exposed in space. Due to the excessive exposure of the living organisms to radiation in space, the results can significantly contribute to the researches focusing on space radiation and related health effects. The latest results have been recently published in Radiation Measurements and the Journal of Physics.
Some years ago, the Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT) and the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) launched the Space Academy Club (Űrakadémia Klub), a series of events dedicated primarily to the young generation (between the age of 18-35). The forthcoming event is on the 23rd February 2017 at Csodák Palotája Playbar, Budapest, where our colleague Dr. Andrea Strádi is going to give a talk titled Safe observation of radiative cosmic hazards – space dosimetry and beyond.
The website of our research group has just been launched! The Space Dosimetry Research Group of the Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences is one of the oldest Hungarian groups developing space instruments.