Environmental exposure conditions for Teflon fluorinated ethylene propylene on the Hubble Space Telescope

High Performance Polymers

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 125-139

  Dever, Joyce A ^a   De Groh, Kim K ^a   Banks, Bruce A ^a   Townsend, Jacqueline A ^b   Barth, Janet L ^b   Thomson, Shaun ^b   Gregory, Teri ^b   Savage, William ^c  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; ELECTRONS; EMBRITTLEMENT; MULTILAYERS; PROTONS; PYROLYSIS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE RESEARCH; TELESCOPES; THERMAL CYCLING; THERMAL INSULATION; X RAYS;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; HUBBLE SPACE APPLICATIONS;

POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES;

EID: 0034159671     PISSN: 09540083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-0083/12/1/310     Document Type: Article

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