Space environment exposure of polymer films on the materials international space station experiment: Results from MISSE 1 and MISSE 2

High Performance Polymers

Volumn 20, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 371-387

  Dever, Joyce A ^a   Miller, Sharon K ^a   Sechkar, Edward A ^b   Wittberg, Thomas N ^c  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ASRC Aerospace Corp   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

International Space Station; Polymer films; Space environment; Spacecraft thermal control

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CORUNDUM; ETHERS; ETHYLENE; EXPERIMENTS; FILMS; KETONES; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NASA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORBITS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXYGEN; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERS; PROPYLENE; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE STATIONS; SPACECRAFT; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

ATOMIC OXYGENS; BENZIMIDAZOLE; EROSION MEASUREMENTS; FLUORINATED ETHYLENE PROPYLENES; FLUORINATED POLYIMIDES; GLENN RESEARCH CENTERS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; LOW EARTH ORBITS; MATERIALS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EXPERIMENTS; NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONS; POLYARYLENE ETHERS; POLYPHENYLENE BENZOBISOXAZOLE; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; SPACE ENVIRONMENTS; SPACECRAFT THERMAL CONTROL; SURFACE COATINGS; WITNESS SAMPLES;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 54249119193     PISSN: 09540083     EISSN: 13616412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954008308089704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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