The material was developed using EmTDLab's AI platform Symade, which simulates and screens large numbers of new alloy compositions.
Selected candidates are then manufactured and tested physically. EmTDLab's platform and materials have been verified and validated together with the European Space Agency.
Under the collaboration, a manufactured EmTDLab shielding plate will fly on Orbit2Orbit's Lab-to-Space programme, a high altitude balloon flight planned for this summer.
The first flight focuses on the structural behaviour of the plate. Radiation measurement is planned for later missions in the programme.
“Designing a material on a screen is one thing. Manufacturing it and flying it in a real space environment is another. This flight is an important step from the laboratory to operational use,” according to EmTDLab Space Division SA chief executive officer and CTO Cedric R.G. Thiry.
Orbit2Orbit is developing a Lab-to-Space pathway and, longer term, the movement of cargo between space stations.
“Our Lab-to-Space programme gives partners a structured way to reduce technical risk and cost before orbital deployment. Systems are progressed through staged flight environments, building confidence through accumulated flight heritage,” according to Orbit2Orbit founder and chief executive officer Bradley Hatton-Jones.
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