Degradation of spacecraft materials

Handbook of Environmental Degradation of Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 465-501

  Dever, Joyce ^a   Banks, Bruce ^a   de Groh, Kim ^a   Miller, Sharon ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION EFFECTS; SPACE DEBRIS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

APPROPRIATE MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS; LABORATORY SIMULATION; MATERIALS DEGRADATION; MICRO-METEOROIDS AND ORBITAL DEBRIS; SPACECRAFT MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE CYCLING;

ORBITS;

EID: 33751205964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-081551500-5.50025-2     Document Type: Chapter

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