“…The ALTEA program, leaded by UNITOV with the fundamental support of the industry (Thales Alenia Space Italia), includes also ground-experiments dedicated to the detailed study of radiation effects on living organisms. Radiation data have been acquired with the ALTEA detector system in the ISS from 2006 to 2012 (Casolino et al, 2006;La Tessa et al, 2009;Zaconte et al, 2010;Larosa et al, 2011;Narici et al, 2012Narici et al, , 2015 and they are of significant importance for future research in the field of Space Weather, especially in the context of human space exploration. Within this program ASI is now sponsoring the Light Ion Detector for ALTEA system (LIDAL), an upgrade of the ALTEA detector system, which will provide an even better ability to study the effect of solar particle events on a LEO habitat (Rizzo et al, 2018).…”