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// TERRAFORMING 03 — RADIATION & MAGNETOSPHERE
SpaceROADMAP

A roof against the sky.

Shielding inhabitants from radiation — printed regolith mass shielding at the structure scale today, and research into an artificial magnetosphere (an L1 magnetic dipole) at the planetary scale.

Regolith
Mass shielding — deployable now
L1 dipole
Planetary shield concept under study
Multi-decade
Horizon for the global case

// WHERE THE LINE IS

Mass shielding at the structure scale is deployable today. A planetary magnetic shield is research.

Horizon: Multi-decade

Two scales, one honest line

At the structure scale, printed regolith overburden is a solved, deployable answer to radiation and micrometeorites. At the planetary scale, a magnetic shield stationed at the Sun–Mars L1 point is a serious but unproven concept. We hold both, and we keep the line between them visible.

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Research the upper ladder. Deploy the lower one.

Partner on the science, or put the deployable building blocks on a site today.