Abstract
Current spacecraft shielding paradigms rely heavily on passive mass blocking, which imposes severe mass penalties and introduces dangerous secondary nucleon scattering. This paper formalizes a systematic, geometric approach to active spacecraft defense by treating the spacecraft hull, internal fluid layers, and the surrounding vacuum as a single, continuous-density oscillator matrix.
The framework is bifurcated based on operational requirements into a Segmented Air-Gap Cascading Shield with active degaussing coils for crewed configurations (Module 1A) and a lightweight Solid-State Hardening Enclosure for automated uncrewed platforms (Module 1B). Middle-layer active mitigation utilizes high-frequency Circularly Polarized Microwaves (CPM) matched to a high-performance Rogers RT/duroid® 6002 ceramic substrate, coupled with 100 kHz ultrasonic standing waves to structure a liquid Sodium-Potassium (NaK-78) alloy into a stable matrix of 3D volumetric helical vortices. This 15 cm core layer is thermally stabilized by zero-moving-part electromagnetic induction pumps driving an active mass-flow rate of 327.25 kg/s (389.58 L/s) to reject a 15.71 MW induction heat flux.
Near-field boundary protection utilizes a vacuum-sintered 1.13-micrometer porous tungsten skin to exude a uniform hydrogen gas layer at a Darcy's Law flow rate of 1.2 × 10⁻⁴ m³/s⋅m². This layer is ionized into a spinning plasma glove and actively recycled via an aft equator 3.51 Megampere-turn superconducting magnetic scavenging funnel with an integrated 12.44 kW re-compression circuit to ensure a 98.5% gas retention rate. Far-field protection is achieved via the projection of self-reinforcing, 188.80 Terawatt Torsional Soliton Pulses into the vacuum matrix utilizing a 10 cm aperture launch array length-matched down to 234.41 micrometers to maintain a sub-1,133.79 femtosecond timing jitter.
We provide the comprehensive mathematical frameworks for the magnetohydrodynamic containment, closed-loop thermodynamic balance, near-field plasma recycling, and non-linear quantum vacuum soliton stability, alongside empirical validation checklists to transition this framework from theoretical engineering to physical reality.
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Recommended Citation
Eckes, Christopher L., "Technical Disclosure: A Framework for Multiphase Magnetohydrodynamic and Torsional Soliton Shielding Architecture", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/11241
Appendix B (2).pdf (105 kB)
Module 2 (IHFM).pdf (102 kB)
Module 3 (Layer B).pdf (169 kB)
Module 4 (Layer C).pdf (105 kB)
Module (BFBS).pdf (53 kB)