ARMAS

Improving health outcomes for frequent flyers and aircrew members.

By creating and deploying innovative instruments that provide detailed, precise measurements of radiation, SET aims to decrease the health risks associated with radiation exposure that frequent flyers and aircrew members face on a daily basis. The data collected also improves our scientific understanding of global radiation conditions due to space weather.

SET flies instruments on a multitude of aerospace vehicles in the ARMAS program. Vehicles types include agency and commercial aircraft, high altitude balloons, and proprietary high altitude aircraft and suborbital as well as orbital vehicles, including the ISS. Each of these flight opportunities has provided a wealth of data on the radiation environment in different atmospheric and exoatmospheric domains. The ARMAS program partners with agency, academic, and industry organizations for its particular ARMAS projects.