An experiment to create and characterize an ultra-vacuum environment in low earth orbit is being developed. A wake region is known to form behind a satellite in low earth orbit. Limited theoretical and experimental results for flowfields around spacecraft are available and a brief discussion of these results is presented. The space experiment package to create an ultra-vacuum condition in the wake region is referred to as the Wake Shield Facility (WSF), manifested for flight on the Space Shuttle in 1993. In the vacuum region, epitaxial thin-films will be processed by molecular and chemical beam epitaxial growth techniques. Various particle flowfield and materials processing considerations for this experiment are presented.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    A space ultra-vacuum experiment - Application to material processing


    Contributors:
    Sega, R. M. (author) / Ignatiev, A. (author)

    Conference:

    AIAA/IKI Microgravity Science Symposium ; 1991 ; Moscow, USSR


    Publication date :

    1991-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






    Space vacuum processing

    IGNATIEV, A. / SHIH, H. / DANIELS, M. et al. | AIAA | 1991


    A VACUUM OPTICAL BENCH FOR TESTING SPACE EXPERIMENT PACKAGES

    DIGGINS, JAMES / PAUL, FRED | AIAA | 1966


    Ultra Lightweight Isogrid Boom Space Experiment (UltraBoom) Systems Design

    Lin, John / Agnes, Gregory / Abelson, Robert et al. | AIAA | 2005