NSWCWODET submitted 27 specimens for space flight STS-46 exposure on the space shuttle. The sample set included various carbide, oxide, and phosphate coatings which are being developed to protect space structural and thermal management components from the atomic oxygen present in low earth orbits, structural carbon-carbon composite material, and a space mirror made of foam metal matrix composite. At this writing, the samples returned from the orbital exposure are being analyzed to determine the degree of reactivity with the space environment.
NSWCWODET Participation in Space Shuttle Mission STS-46
1993
24 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Astronautics , Composite Materials , Carbon carbon composites , Space environments , Carbides , Coatings , Composite materials , Earth orbits , Flight , Foam , Management , Materials , Metal matrix composites , Mirrors , Orbits , Oxides , Oxygen , Phosphate coatings , Phosphates , Reactivities , Space flight , Space shuttles , Atomic oxygen
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