The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) have deployed three sets of two passive experiments on the exterior of the Russian Service Module on the International Space Station: the Micro-Particles Capturer and the Space Environment Exposure Device, known collectively as MPAC&SEED. The MPAC segment of each unit consists mainly of a front and back face, nominally ram- and wake-pointing, each of which contains aerogel and polyimide foam tiles for capturing micrometeoroids and small space debris particles. In addition, the ram face contains a 6061-T6 aluminium witness plate. We provide a description of the MPAC, summarise the inspection and analysis performed to date, discuss the results so far achieved, and lay out our plans for the remainder of the work.


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    Title :

    Microparticle capture on the international space station using aerogel and polyimide foam


    Contributors:
    Neish, M.J. (author) / Imagawa, K. (author) / Inoue, T. (author) / Ishizawa, J. (author) / Kitazawa, Y. (author) / Yamaura, Y. (author) / Murakami, A. (author) / Ochi, Y. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    5 Seiten, 5 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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