The Strategic Technologies in Automation and Robotics (STEAR) program is managing a number of development contracts to improve the protection of spacecraft materials from the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space environment. The project is structured in two phases over a 3 to 4 year period with a budget of 3 to 4 million dollars. Phase 1 is designed to demonstrate the technical feasibility and commercial potential of a coating/substrate system and its associated application process. The objective is to demonstrate a prototype fabrication capability using a full scale component of a commercially viable process for the protection of materials and surface finishes from the LEO space environment, and to demonstrate compliance with a set of performance requirements. Only phase 1 will be discussed in this paper.
Canadian Space Agency, Space Station, Strategic Technologies for Automation and Robotics Program Technology Development Activity in Protection of Materials from the Low Earth Orbit Space Environment
1992
1 pages
Report
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English
Coatings, Colorants, & Finishes , Space Technology , Protective coatings , Canadian space program , Earth orbital environments , Feasibility analysis , Robotics , Space stations , Technology assessment , Aerospace environments , Oxygen atoms , Prototypes , Technology utilization , Ultraviolet radiation , Foreign technology , STEAR program
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