<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Stuart LaForge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avant@sollegro.com" target="_blank">avant@sollegro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Maybe I am missing something obvious here, but if the problem is high energy charged particle radiation like protons, then why not just give the spacecraft a magnetic field?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Someone is working on that:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/nov/06/magnetic-shield-could-protect-spacecraft">http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/nov/06/magnetic-shield-could-protect-spacecraft</a></div><div><br></div><div>Alfio</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>