The NASA Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) provided a unique flight opportunity for conducting experiments in space and return of these experiments to Earth for laboratory evaluation. The results of one of these experiments, S0010, Exposure of Spacecraft Coatings, in which selected spacecraft thermal control coatings were exposed to the low-Earth orbital (LEO) environment on LDEF are reported. The objective of the experiment is to evaluate the response of thermal control coatings to LEO exposure, which includes atomic oxygen, ultraviolet and particulate radiation, meteoroid and debris, vacuum, and temperature cycling.
LDEF Thermal Control Coatings Post-Flight Analysis
1993
5 pages
Report
No indication
English
Coatings, Colorants, & Finishes , Materials Degradation & Fouling , Unmanned Spacecraft , Astronautics , Earth orbital environments , Long duration exposure facility , Oxygen atoms , Postflight analysis , Thermal control coatings , Ultraviolet radiation , Satellite temperature , Spacecraft environments , Temperature control , Thermal protection
LDEF thermal control coatings post-flight analysis
NTRS | 1993
|Selected results for LDEF thermal control coatings
NTRS | 1993
|Selected Results for LDEF Thermal Control Coatings
NTIS | 1993
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