Real-time total integrated scattering measurements on the Mir spacecraft to evaluate sample degradation in space

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 2755-2768

  Hadaway, James B ^a   Ahmad, Anees ^a,d   Pezzaniti, J Larry ^a,e   Chipman, Russell A ^a,f   Wilkes, Donald R ^b   Hummer, Leigh L ^b   Crandall, David G ^b   Bennett, Jean M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b AZ Technology   (United States)

^c NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^d RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^e Sy Technology Inc   (United States)

^f E TEK Dynamics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

TOTAL INTEGRATED SCATTERING (TIS);

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0038163628     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002755     Document Type: Article

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