Analysis of Metallized Teflon(trademark) Film Materials Performance on Satellites
- Author:
- Pippin, H. Gary
- Published:
- [2002].
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Wolf, Suzanne L. B., Normand, Eugene, Kamenetzky, Rachel, and Kauffman, William J., Jr.
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- Laboratory and on-orbit performance data for two common thermal control materials, silver- and aluminum-backed (metallized) fluorinated ethyl-propylene (TER) was collected from a variety of sources and analyzed. This paper demonstrates that the change in solar absorptance, alpha, is a strong function of particulate radiation for these materials. Examination of additional data shows that the atomic oxygen recession rate is a strong function of solar exposure with an induction period of between 25 to 50 equivalent solar hours. The relationships determined in this analysis were incorporated into an electronic knowledge base, the 'Spacecraft Materials Selector,' under NASA contract NAS8-98213.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 20020048415.
AIAA 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting; Jan. 2001; Reno, NV; United States. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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