A preliminary assessment of the self-induced environment and contamination of the Space Telescope

Details A preliminary assessment of the self-induced environment and contamination of the Space Telescope A preliminary assessment of the self-induced environment and contamination of the Space Telescope

Apr 1982

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Hubble Space Telescope, Outgassing, Spacecraft Contamination, Spacecraft Environments, Bays (Structural Units), Deposits, Graphite-Epoxy Composites, Internal Pressure, Multilayer Insulation, Paints, Shrouds, Space Shuttle Orbiters, Time Dependence, Water Vapor

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Preliminary estimates for the internal pressures and surface contamination of the Space Telescope were made. The calculations for the transient pressures in the aft-shroud and telescope compartments considered two large communicating volumes that contain gaseous sources and sinks. The outgassing sources in the aft shroud consist of several scientific instruments, paints, insulations, and graphite-epoxy structures. With the exception of the instruments, these sources also exist in the telescope compartment. the outgassing functions were generated from ample test results at various temperatures and from internal pressure measurements in a vacuum test of one of the instruments. The venting occurs through combinations of series and parallel passages in both compartments. The calculated time constant of the two volumes and their respective passages, with the telescope protective door closed, is a few seconds, which is slightly less than that of the shuttle bay volume with the bay doors closed. With the telescope door closed, the pressures in the two compartments should decay to about 1OE-5 torr in about 200 hours. The contaminant deposits were assessed on the basis of expected partial pressures of the contaminant fraction of the outgassing. These pressures and the activation energies of the source materials were used to calculate the adsorbed and condensed deposits on the surfaces as a function of time.

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