Satellite contamination continues to be a design problem that engineers must take into account when developing new satellites. To help with this issue, NASA's Space Environments and Effects (SEE) Program funded the development of the Satellite Contamination and Materials Outgassing Knowledge base. This engineering tool brings together in one location information about the outgassing properties of aerospace materials based upon ground-testing data, the effects of outgassing that has been observed during flight and measurements of the contamination environment by on-orbit instruments. The knowledge base contains information using the ASTM Standard E- 1559 and also consolidates data from missions using quartz-crystal microbalances (QCM's). The data contained in the knowledge base was shared with NASA by government agencies and industry in the US and international space agencies as well. The term 'knowledgebase' was used because so much information and capability was brought together in one comprehensive engineering design tool. It is the SEE Program's intent to continually add additional material contamination data as it becomes available - creating a dynamic tool whose value to the user is ever increasing. The SEE Program firmly believes that NASA, and ultimately the entire contamination user community, will greatly benefit from this new engineering tool and highly encourages the community to not only use the tool but add data to it as well.


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    Title :

    Satellite Contamination and Materials Outgassing Knowledge base


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    35th Thermophysics Conference ; 2001 ; Anaheim, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2001-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





    Satellite Contamination and Materials Outgassing Knowledgebase

    Minor, J. L. / American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001



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    Materials Outgassing Effects and Satellite Contamination Database

    Wood, B. E. / Green, B. D. / Uy, O. M. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000