This paper reports the results of highly integrated thermal vacuum testing of key components of a membrane concentrator system that occurred during June 2001. The Dual Use Science and Technology (DUS&T) Electromagnetic Radiation Control Experiment (EMRCE) Team, including SRS Technologies, ATK Thiokol Propulsion, Boeing, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is an industry and government partnership that is chartered to develop flight-qualified membrane structures. Specifically, DUS&T EMRCE aims to complete development of membrane concentrator technologies to achieve flight experiment readiness in anticipation of a near- term flight experiment opportunity. Potential flight experiments are radiofrequency communications. (10 figures, 6 refs.).


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