Radiometric impact assessments and shielding of CubeSat class satellites in interaction with orbital radiation fields and representativity of the calibration procedure and radiation damage tests in the ground facility

Using FLUKA and MCNP Monte Carlo nuclear particle transport codes, support for radiation shielding design and assessing damage to aerospace components and systems has been developed. To this aim, many comparisons between the simulation of irradiation of aerospace components and systems with accelerators, nuclear research reactors, and spontaneous decay sources with the orbital sources were obtained from the design of a CubeSat mission.