The Space Industry Regulations 2021

Monitoring of exposure to cosmic radiation: crew other than classified crew U.K.

139.—(1) A spaceflight operator must ensure that the exposure to cosmic radiation of crew members who are not classified crew members is monitored to such an extent as is sufficient to identify any crew members who should be classified under regulation 143.

(2) Monitoring of the crew of a carrier aircraft or a launch vehicle under this regulation may be undertaken by proper use of any of the following computer programs, which calculate the effective dose of cosmic radiation received by an individual on board a carrier aircraft or a launch vehicle, or of a computer program that performs an equivalent function—

(a) CARI-7;

(b) EPCARD;

(c) SIEVERT PN;

(d) PCAire.

(3) In this regulation—

(a) “CARI-7” means the computer programme of the same name, developed by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute;

(b) “EPCARD” means the European Program Package for the Calculation of Aviation Route Doses, developed by the Institute of Radiation Protection at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, German Research Centre for Environmental Health;

(c) “SIEVERT PN” means the computer programme of the same name, developed by the Institut De Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire;

(d) “PCAire” means the computer programme of the same name, developed by PCAire Inc.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 139 in force at 29.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)