Comparison of atomic oxygen erosion yields of materials at various energies and impact angles

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 616, 2006, Pages

  Banks, Bruce A ^a   Waters, Deborah L ^a   Thorson, Stephen D ^b   DeGroh, Kim K ^a   Snyder, Aaron ^a   Miller, Sharon ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; POLYIMIDES; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATOMIC OXYGEN; EROSION YIELDS; IMPACT ANGLES; LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO); RF PLASMA ASHERS;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33845807421     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Rutledge, S.K., Banks, B.A. and Cales, M., "A Comparison of Atomic Oxygen Erosion Yields of Carbon and Selected Polymers Exposed in Ground Based Facilities and in Low Earth Orbit," NASA TM 1006622, paper presented at the AIAA Aerospace Ground Testing Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, June 20-23, 1994.
2. Rutledge, S.K., Banks, B.A., and Kitral, M., "A Comparison of Space and Ground Based Facility Environmental Effects for FEP Teflon," paper presented at the Fourth International Space Conference, ICPMSE-4, Toronto, Canada, April 23-24, 1998.
3. Banks, Bruce A., de Groh, Kim K., and Miller, Sharon K., "Low Earth Orbital Atomic Oxygen Interactions with Spacecraft Materials," NASA TM-2004-213400 and paper presented at the Fall 2004 Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston Massachusetts, November 29-December 3, 2004.
4. Dever, Joyce, Banks, Bruce, de Groh, Kim, and Miller, Sharon, "Degradation of Spacecraft Materials", in Handbook of Environmental Degradation of Materials. Chapter 23, pp. 465-501, published by William Andrew Publishing, Norwich, NY, 2005.
5. James R. Kahn and Raymond S. Robinson, NASA contract report, Front Range Research, Fort Collins, CO, Sept. 28, 1989.
6. Banks, B.A., Chapter 4, entitled, "The Use of Fluoropolymers in Space Applications," in Modern Fluoropolymers: High Performance Polymers for Diverse Applications, edited by J. Scheirs, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997.
7. de Groh, K., Banks, B., McCarthy, C., Rucker, R., Berger, L., and Roberts, L., "Analysis of the MISSE PEACE Polymers International Space Station Environmental Exposure Experiment," Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Materials in a Space Environment, Collioure, France, June 19-23, 2006.