The Development of High-Temperature Composite Solar Array Substrate Panels for the MESSENGER Spacecraft

SAMPE Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 6-17

  Wienhold, Paul D ^a   Persons, David F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACE-QUALIFIED MATERIALS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ESTERS; GLASS TRANSITION; PLANETS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SPACECRAFT; STIFFNESS; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TOUGHENING;

STRUCTURAL PANELS;

EID: 0345117156     PISSN: 00911062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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2. ASTM C 297-61, "Standard Test Method for Tensile Strength of Flat Sandwich Constructions in Flatwise Plane," American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, 1988.
3. ASTM C 393-62, "Standard Test Method for Flexural Properties of Flat Sandwich Constructions," American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, 1988.