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Title Spacecraft contamination : sources and prevention / edited by J.A. Roux, T.D. McCay
Published New York, N.Y. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., ©1984

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) : illustrations
Series Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 91
Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 91.
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Contamination Overview -- Improved Methods for Characterizing Material-Induced Contamination -- Potential for Cross Contamination for Payloads in the STS Bay -- Chapter II. Sources and Prevention of Contamination -- Debris from Spallation of Foam Insulation of Cryogenic Fuel Tanks in Space Launch Systems -- Particle Dispersion around a Spacecraft -- Impact of the STS Ground/Launch Particle Contamination Environment on an Optical Sensor
Analysis of Contamination Degradation of Thermal Control Surfaces on Operational SatellitesAbatement of Gaseous and Particulate Contamination in a Space Instrument -- Chapter III. Properties and Effects of Contamination -- Infrared Optical Properties of Thin CO, NO, CH4, HCI, N2O, O2, N2, and Ar Cryofilms -- Infrared Optical Properties of Solid Mixtures of Molecular Species at 20 K -- Measurements of Infrared Optical Properties of A12O3 Rocket Particles -- Improvements in Rocket Engine Nozzle and High Altitude Plume Computations
As/eH Measurements of Thermal Control Coatings over Four Years at Geosynchronous AltitudeCalorimetric Measurements of Thermal Control Surfaces on Operational Satellites -- Experimental Investigation of Bipropellant Exhaust Plume Flowfield, Heating, and Contamination and Comparison with the CONTAM Computer Model Predictions -- Particle Sampling of Solid Rocket Motor Exhausts in High-Altitude Test Cells -- Postfire Sampling of Solid Rocket Motors for Contamination Sources in High-Altitude Test Cells -- Author Index
Notes "Technical papers selected from the AIAA 21st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 1983, and the AIAA 18th Thermophysics Conference, June 1983, and subsequently revised for this volume."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Space vehicles -- Contamination -- Congresses
Space vehicles -- Contamination
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Roux, J. A
McCay, T. D
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting (21st : 1983)
AIAA Thermophysics Conference (18th : 1983)
LC no. 84012401
ISBN 9781600863455
1600863450