Electron beam irradiation for microbial reduction on spacecraft components

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Urgiles, Eduardo ^a   Wilcox, Jaroslava ^a   Montes, Oliver ^a   Osman, Shariff ^a   Venkateswaran, Kasthuri ^a   Cepeda, Martha ^b   Maxim, Joseph ^b   Braby, Les ^b   Pillai, Suresh D ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; PLANETARY LANDERS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING);

DRY HEAT MICROBIAL REDUCTION (DHMR) TREATMENT; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; PAYLOADS; SURFACE STERILIZATION;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 34548745245     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2007.352739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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