External spacecraft materials play an important role in satellite protection from the harsh space environment. Research has shown that the physical, chemical, and optical properties of matter change continuously as a result of exposure to solar radiation and aggressive chemical species produced in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Thorough knowledge of the material properties evolution throughout a planned mission lifetime helps to improve the reliability of spacecraft. Moreover, the establishment of correlation factors between true space exposure and accelerated space weather experiments at ground facilities enables accurate prediction of on-orbit material performance based on laboratory-based testing. The presented work aims to evaluate the radiation effects of low Earth orbit (LEO) environment, namely, exposure to the high-energy electrons, atomic oxygen (AO), and vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), of several modern spacecraft materials. The studied materials represent the “flight duplicates” of samples that are launched as a part of the 16th Materials International Space Station Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-FF) mission in 2022.


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    Titel :

    Spacecraft Materials Degradation Under Space-Simulated Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Environment


    Beteiligte:
    Elena Plis (Autor:in) / Miles T Bengtson (Autor:in) / Daniel P Engelhart (Autor:in) / Gregory P Badura (Autor:in) / Heather M Cowardin (Autor:in) / Jacqueline A Reyes (Autor:in) / Jainisha R Shah (Autor:in) / Timothy R Scott (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA SciTech Forum ; 2023 ; National Harbor, MD , US


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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