Sterilization introduces serious engineering problems, especially by decreasing component reliability; type and duration of sterilization procedure must depend on some estimate of what constitutes acceptable risk of planetary contamination; attempt is made to provide means of computing level of spacecraft sterility as function of acceptable risk; derivation of general expression for number of viable microorganism by summing probabilities of all conceivable scenarios of scientific successes and biological contaminations; numerical values are displayed in graph.
Spacecraft sterilization standards and contamination of Mars
Astronautics Aeronautics
Astronautics and Aeronautics ; 3 , n 5
1965
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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