Comment on First Robotic Satellite Servicer LaunchedparentComments−GlenTheMachineOP1moYou wouldn't. Ionizing radiation at GEO altitude quickly exceeds your lifetime exposure dose.The Apollo (and Artemis II) astronauts went through GEO inside a metal capsule going as fast as they could.−walrus011moa relatively detailed analysis of estimated radiation for a 650 day trip to mars:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9916691/from other sources If I'm reading things right, one estimate of a round trip to mars would be 1000 millisieverts, which is considerable, the maximum allowed annual dose for a US radiation industry worker is 50mSv.
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You wouldn't. Ionizing radiation at GEO altitude quickly exceeds your lifetime exposure dose.
The Apollo (and Artemis II) astronauts went through GEO inside a metal capsule going as fast as they could.
a relatively detailed analysis of estimated radiation for a 650 day trip to mars:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9916691/
from other sources If I'm reading things right, one estimate of a round trip to mars would be 1000 millisieverts, which is considerable, the maximum allowed annual dose for a US radiation industry worker is 50mSv.