A study was carried out to examine several factors that can influence how dust can degrade thermal-control surfaces on the moon. The most important factor, besides how much dust covers the thermal-control surface, was the solar absorptance α and, to a lesser extent, the thermal emittance ε of the dust covering the surface. Full coverage of the lightest and darkest dust degraded the α / ε of the surface by a factor of about 1.5 and 5.8 respectively. Silver-backed fluoroethylene propylene exhibited the least amount of degradation by lightest-colored dust, and although its fractional degradation for the darkest-colored dust was the highest, the absolute value of the α / ε was still lower than that of white thermal-control paint (AZ93) or aluminized fluoroethylene propylene. Neither illumination angle nor particle size (for particles less than 50 μ m ) were found to degrade the α / ε of thermal-control surfaces in an important way. The degradation in α / ε by complete monolayer coverage was much less than would be predicted from a simple rule of mixtures. Development of effective mitigation strategies will be essential to avoid prohibitive mass penalties for thermal-control systems that must work in a dusty environment.


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    Titel :

    Studies of Simulated Lunar Dust on the Properties of Thermal-Control Surfaces


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2013-05-13


    Format / Umfang :

    5 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch