LOD, Israel (IAI PR) — President of Israel Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin today, Wednesday 9 December / 23 Kislev, hosted the launch of the Beresheet 2 project, the second Israeli spacecraft to be launched to the moon. Minister of Science and Technology Yizhar Shai, Founder of SpaceIL Kfir Damri, CEO of Space IL Shimon Sarid and CEO of IAI Boaz Levy also participated in the event.

• MARE is an experiment to measure radiation exposure on the female body during NASA’s Artemis I mission.
• The phantoms Helga and Zohar are DLR measurement bodies and will be flying to the Moon and back on the first, uncrewed flight of the Orion spacecraft.
• They will acquire gender-specific measurement data on space radiation beyond the orbit of the ISS for the first time.
• They are also testing the effectiveness of a newly developed radiation protection vest (AstroRad).
• Focus: Space, human spaceflight, aerospace medicine, radiation biology

COLOGNE, Germany (DLR PR) — The intensity of space radiation is much greater outside Earth’s protective magnetic field. This causes problems for the human body and represents a challenge for future crewed space missions to the Moon and Mars.

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is conducting research to determine the radiation risk for crewed spaceflight. One of the projects that the researchers are carrying out together with NASA, the Israeli Space Agency ISA and the companies Lockheed Martin and StemRad is the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment (MARE).