Cosmic Shielding

Cosmic Shielding protects spacecraft and subsystems from space radiation. There are a number of unmanned space assets that are subject to corrosion, comms disruptions, data corruption leading to mission degradation or outright failure. Organic life, particularly humans, are also at high risk of space radiation damage leading to immediate sickness, cancer and other degenerative diseases. Space radiation is a key blocker to in-orbit manufacturing, refueling, advanced comms and permanent off world human settlement. To address this danger, existing industry solutions are highly varied, without standard form factors. Often they are built with Apollo-era alloys, adding extra bulk or reductions in computational capability that restricts mission performance and adds costs. Cosmic Shielding makes Plasteel, which that can provide radiation and thermal protection for electronics and humans. The material can be built into the structure, such as the chassis of a satellite, or printed onto the PCB for the electronics.  Compared to the current radiation hardening devices and coverings, Plasteel can deliver a 40x mass savings, reduce radiation exposure by 60%, be purchased at cost parity with aluminum and delivered with a 2 week lead time through additive manufacturing. As a result, it costs 15x cheaper than leading rad-hard systems.