Space Radiation Superconducting Shields

The interest on shields to protect astronauts I long term missions against GCR has recently grown and several projects have been funded. Due to their large mass, passive shields for large volume habitable modules are no longer an option and the attention is focused on the more complex, technologically challenging active systems. Among the possible solutions, the most promising is based on huge superconducting coils having a bending power sufficient to deflect out of the habitat charged particles with kinetic energy in the order of 1 GeV. Toroidal magnet systems based wound with Ti clad MgB2 conductor is proposed and described.