PROTECTION OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES FROM THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT

The goals of the ICPMSE-7 meeting, as in the past years, are to facilitate exchanges between members of the various engineering disciplines involved in development of space materials, including such aspects as environmental hazards of  Low Earth Orbi

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Space Technology Proceedings VOLUME 6

PROTECTION OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES FROM THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT ICPMSE-7

Edited by Jacob I. Kleiman Integrity Testing Laboratory Inc. Markham, Toronto, Canada

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

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Acknowledgements

xiii

Organization

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Radiation Effects of Protons and Electrons on Backfield Silicon Solar Cells Z. Hu, S. He, and D. Yang Solar Array Arcing in LEO: How Much Charge is Discharged? D. C. Ferguson, B. V. Vayner, and J. T. Galofaro

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Self-Restoration as SEU Protection Mechanism for Reconfigurable On-Board Computing Platform L. Kirischian, V. Geurkov, I. Terterian, and J. Kleiman

21

Synergistic Effect of Protons and Electrons on Radiation Damage of Methyl Silicone Rubber L. Zhang, S. He, D. Yang, and Q. Wei

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Influence of Electron Radiation on Outgassing of Spacecraft Materials R. H. Khassanchine, A. N. Timofeev, A. N. Galygin, V. I. Kostiuk, and V. M. Tsvelev Effect of Surface Charging on the Erosion Rate of Polyimide Under 5 eV Atomic Oxygen Beam Exposure M. Tagawa, S. Seikyu, K.-I. Maeda, K. Yokota, and N. Ohmae Influence of Space Environment on Spectral Optical Properties of Thermal Control Coatings V. M. Prosvirikov, A. V. Grigorevskiy, L. V. Kiseleva, A. P. Zelenkevich, and V. M. Tsvelev Mitigation of Thruster Plume-Induced Erosion of ISS Sensitive Hardware C. Pankop, J. Alred, and P. Boeder v

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Degradation of Thermal Control Coatings Under Influence of Proton Irradiation L. S. Novikov, G. G. Solovyev, V. N. Vasil’ev, A. V. Grigorevskiy, and L. V. Kiseleva Mitigation of Damage to the International Space Station (ISS) from Water Dumps W. Schmidl, J. Visentine, and R. Mikatarian Investigation of Synergistic Effects of Proton and Electron Radiation on the Dyeing of Optical Quartz Glass H. Liu, S. He, H. Geng, D. Yang, and V. V. Abraimov The Role of “Abnormal” Electron Fluxes with Energy 115 nm) of various intensities on transmittance at 300 nm of 152 μm DC93-500 film Intensity (number of VUV suns)

Exposure level (Thousands of ESH)

Transmittance at 300 nm (%)

1.5

0.2 0.37 0.57 0.7 1.12 1.93 0

79.10 70.77 66.24 64.50 55.43 48.76 92.50

3 5.5 0

figure 5(a). It is also evident that degradation increases with increasing equivalent sun hou