[defrost]

Academia? Cubesat projects?

Maybe get the kids to look into using Magnetorquers to get some spin on and half shield with this product .. and you now have a platform for directional gamma ray detection | mapping.

( Gamma counts coming from "over there" will decrease whenever "over there" is masked by the partial shielding )

There are other apps, but that one springs to mind.

[picture]

Great idea! We do have 3 DoF magnetorquers on board, but I feel like the difference between shield on and shield off might need a very sensitive and directional detector..

[defrost]

It's a timing thing - Australia used a "we built it ourselves" detector with shielding that rotated about the crystal pack to find that missing mining source that hit the news last month.

The detector part (doped crystals + scintillation sensors) is fundamentally undirectional - those pesky gamma come in from any direction.

One side has to be shielded to bias the reading (use Tungsten perhaps) .. and by rotating the entire satellite the shielding direction changes - you now have a bulk data stats analysis challenge, do particular orientations align with counts (at various energy levels) rising or falling.

As alway, have a fiddle with a ground based setup first.

[dylan604]

>As alway, have a fiddle with a ground based setup first.

now see, if we do that, then you're ruining the one chance I have of being the exact right person to go to space to fix the thing.

[azalemeth]

I feel obliged to mention coded apertures here too! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_aperture