A Passive Optical Sample Assembly (POSA) unit was mounted and flown in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Columbia during the first Orbital Flight Test (OFT-1). A similar unit was mounted in a different location in the cargo bay during the postflight operations. The samples in both POSA arrays were subjected to a series of optical and analytical measurements prior to delivery for installation in the cargo bay and after retrieval of the flight hardware. The final results of a comparison of the two series of measurements are presented. These STS-1 results are based on data obtained from only a portion of one of the ten Induced Environment Contamination Monitor instruments to be flown on several shuttle flights beginning with STS-2. These limited results do not indicate shuttle contamination levels in excess of those anticipated.
Passive Optical Sample Assembly (POSA)
1981
47 pages
Report
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Englisch
Passive Optical Sample Assembly (POSA)
NTRS | 1981
|The Passive Optical Sample Assembly (POSA) on STS-1
NTIS | 1981
|The Passive Optical Sample Assembly (POSA) on STS-1
NTRS | 1981
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