A Space Experiment to Measure the Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Polymers and Demonstrate a Technique to Identify Sources of Silicone Contamination | Zendy

Bruce A. Banks | Zendy; Kim K. de Groh | Zendy; Elyse Baney-Barton | Zendy; Edward A. Sechkar | Zendy; Patricia K. Hunt | Zendy; Alan Willoughby | Zendy; Meagan J. Bemer | Zendy; Stephanie Hope | Zendy; Julie Koo | Zendy; Carolyn Kaminski | Zendy; Erica Youngstrom | Zendy

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A Space Experiment to Measure the Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Polymers and Demonstrate a Technique to Identify Sources of Silicone Contamination

Author(s) -

Bruce A. Banks,

Kim K. de Groh,

Elyse Baney-Barton,

Edward A. Sechkar,

Patricia K. Hunt,

Alan Willoughby,

Meagan J. Bemer,

Stephanie Hope,

Julie Koo,

Carolyn Kaminski,

Erica Youngstrom

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

sae technical papers on cd-rom/sae technical paper series

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295

H-Index - 107

eISSN - 1083-4958

pISSN - 0148-7191

DOI - 10.4271/1999-01-2695

Subject(s) - contamination , silicone , measure (data warehouse) , erosion , polymer , space (punctuation) , oxygen , materials science , atomic oxygen , environmental science , computer science , composite material , chemistry , geology , data mining , ecology , paleontology , organic chemistry , biology , operating system

A low Earth orbital space experiment entitled, "Polymers Erosion And Contamination Experiment", (PEACE) has been designed as a Get-Away Special (GAS Can) experiment to be accommodated as a Shuttle in-bay environmental exposure experiment. The first objective is to measure the atomic oxygen erosion yields of approximately 40 different polymeric materials by mass loss and erosion measurements using atomic force microscopy. The second objective is to evaluate the capability of identifying sources of silicone contamination through the use of a pin-hole contamination camera which utilizes environmental atomic oxygen to produce a contaminant source image on an optical substrate.

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