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As one of the few accelerators worldwide capable of providing high energy heavy ions similar to the radiation environment in space, GSI has a long-standing history in ground-based, space-relevant radiation research in life sciences, nuclear physics, detector technologies, and electronics testing.
This talk will present past measurement campaigns such as the multi-year ROSSINI projects (RadiatiOn Shielding by ISRU and/or INnovative materIals for EVA, Vehicle and Habitat) to characterize novel shielding materials as well as lessons-learned. GSI's current space radiation research projects and new technical capabilities such as the hybrid active–passive Galactic Cosmic Ray simulator and opportunities and challenges presented by the future accelerator complex FAIR will be discussed.