Radiation while Flying - 2020

Health & Safety - Mining, Environmental, & Cybersecurity

Tony Phillips and his team monitor the aviation radiation environment around the world and we're developing tools to help you track your exposure while you travel. Did you know?: A typical commercial flight across the United States exposes you to about the same amount of radiation as a typical dental x-ray. For more information, see our Science page. Their research is 100% crowdfunded through fundraising for our space-weather ballooning program, Earth to Sky Calculus.

Support Rads on a Plane by sponsoring a flight, sending up your own experiment, or buying a one-of-a-kind gift flown to the stratosphere.  

None of the team at Rads on a Plane are medical doctors, nor are we offering medical advice. Instead, we are astrophysicists, computer scientists, and communicators. Their job, as they see it, is to gather true information about aviation radiation and to share it with you. It's up to you to decide what it means for your health.

We all traveled on planes before the on-set of the COVID-19 Pandemic, without fear of immediate effects from the radiation exposure we received onboard. However, the more they have learned about the radiation environment "up there", the more they have become mindful of our accumulated doses--and thoughtful of other travelers such as pregnant women who may be more vulnerable than they were.

Without Earth to Sky Calculus there would be no Rads on a Plane. Earth to Sky Calculus is group of youth doing cutting-edge science in a little-explored realm 100,000 feet above our heads: the stratosphere. What began as an extra-curricular calculus and quantum mechanics class begun in 5th grade, eventually turned into a hands-on space-weather ballooning program to search for new life forms in the stratosphere and to monitor the effects of cosmic radiation on Earth’s atmosphere. Their efforts are 100% crowdfunded. Small business, non-profits, and small businesses “own” this research and are responsible for its advance.

​Earth to Sky's ongoing space-weather ballooning program continues to be a cornerstone in the Rads on a Plane research program. 

​You can learn more about what is likely the most active citizen-science space weather ballooning program in the world and the wonderful youth who participate at earthtosky.net or by visiting the Earth to Sky Calculus Facebook page. 

Also see The Bog: https://www.radsonaplane.com/feed