Spacecraft bipropellant thrusters impact spacecraft surfaces with high speed droplets of unburned and partially burned propellant. These impacts can produce erosion damage to optically sensitive hardware and systems (e.g., windows, camera lenses, solar cells and protective coatings). On the International Space Station (ISS), operational constraints are levied on the position and orientation of the solar arrays to mitigate erosion effects during thruster operations. In 2007, the ISS Program requested evaluation of erosion constraint relief to alleviate operational impacts due to an impaired Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ). Boeing Space Environments initiated an activity to identify and remove sources of conservatism in the plume induced erosion model to support an expanded range of acceptable solar array positions  The original plume erosion model over-predicted plume erosion and was adjusted to better correlate with flight experiment results. This paper discusses findings from flight experiments and the methodology employed in modifying the original plume erosion model for better correlation of predictions with flight experiment data. The updated model has been successful employed in reducing conservatism and allowing for enhanced flexibility in ISS solar array operations.


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    Titel :

    Improvements in Modeling Thruster Plume Erosion Damage to Spacecraft Surfaces


    Beteiligte:
    Soares, Carlos (Autor:in) / Olsen, Randy (Autor:in) / Steagall, Courtney (Autor:in) / Huang, Alvin (Autor:in) / Mikatarian, Ron (Autor:in) / Myers, Brandon (Autor:in) / Koontz, Steven (Autor:in) / Worthy, Erica (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    International Symposium on Materials in the Space ; 2015 ; Pau, France


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015-06-22


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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