The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest and most complex on‐orbit platform for space science utilization in low Earth orbit. Multiple sites for external payloads, with exposure to the associated natural and induced environments, are available to support a variety of space science utilization objectives. Contamination is one of the induced environments that can impact performance, mission success and science utilization on the vehicle. The ISS has been designed, built and integrated with strict contamination requirements to provide low levels of induced contamination on external payload assets. This paper addresses the ISS induced contamination environment at attached payload sites, both at the requirements level as well as measurements made on returned hardware, and contamination forecasting maps being generated to support external payload topology studies and science utilization.


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    Title :

    International Space Station External Contamination Environment for Space Science Utilization



    Conference:

    Annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference ; 2014 ; Chicago, IL, United States


    Publication date :

    2014-06-17


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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