[/caption]British scientists invent “mini-magnetosphere” to protect astronauts during solar storms. Space travel during a solar storm just became a little less risky. UK scientists working at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford and the universities of York and Strathclyde have tested a “mini-magnetosphere” enveloping a model spacecraft in the lab. It turns out that their prototype … Continue reading Ion Shield for Interplanetary Spaceships Now a Reality