Hubble Space Telescope metallized Teflon FEP thermal control materials: On-orbit degradation and post-retrieval analysis

High Performance Polymers

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-99

  Townsend, Jacqueline A ^a   Hansen, Patricia A ^a   Dever, Joyce A ^b   De Groh, Kim K ^b   Banks, Bruce A ^b   Wang, Len ^c   He, Charles ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Unysis Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; CRACK PROPAGATION; MULTILAYERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THERMAL CYCLING; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS;

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (HST); MULTILAYER INSULATION (MLI) BLANKETS; THERMAL CONTROL MATERIALS;

POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES;

EID: 0033098720     PISSN: 09540083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-0083/11/1/007     Document Type: Article

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