Spacecraft contamination [electronic resource] : sources and prevention / edited by J.A. Roux, T.D. McCay.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Roux, J. A.

McCay, T. D.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Conference Name:

AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting (21st : 1983)

AIAA Thermophysics Conference (18th : 1983)

Series:

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 91.

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space vehicles--Contamination--Congresses.

Space vehicles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., c1984.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Chapter I. Contamination Overview; Improved Methods for Characterizing Material-Induced Contamination; Potential for Cross Contamination for Payloads in the STS Bay; Chapter II. Sources and Prevention of Contamination; Debris from Spallation of Foam Insulation of Cryogenic Fuel Tanks in Space Launch Systems; Particle Dispersion around a Spacecraft; Impact of the STS Ground/Launch Particle Contamination Environment on an Optical Sensor; Analysis of Contamination Degradation of Thermal Control Surfaces on Operational Satellites

Abatement of Gaseous and Particulate Contamination in a Space InstrumentChapter III. Properties and Effects of Contamination; Infrared Optical Properties of Thin CO,NO, CH4, HCI, N2O, O2, N2, and Ar Cryofilms; Infrared Optical Properties of Solid Mixtures of Molecular Species at 20 K; Measurements of Infrared Optical Properties of A12O3 Rocket Particles; Improvements in Rocket Engine Nozzle and High Altitude Plume Computations; as/eH Measurements of Thermal Control Coatings over Four Years at Geosynchronous Altitude

Calorimetric Measurements of Thermal Control Surfaces on Operational SatellitesExperimental Investigation of Bipropellant Exhaust Plume Flowfield, Heating, and Contamination and Comparison with the CONTAM Computer Model Predictions; Particle Sampling of Solid Rocket Motor Exhausts in High-Altitude Test Cells; Postfire Sampling of Solid Rocket Motors for Contamination Sources in High-Altitude Test Cells; Author Index

Notes:

"Technical papers selected from the AIAA 21st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 1983, and the AIAA 18th Thermophysics Conference, June 1983, and subsequently revised for this volume."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60086-564-X

1-60086-345-0

OCLC:

922979130