Current activities and results of the Long Duration Exposure Facility Meteoroid and Debris Special Investigation Group

Details Current activities and results of the Long Duration Exposure Facility Meteoroid and Debris Special Investigation Group Current activities and results of the Long Duration Exposure Facility Meteoroid and Debris Special Investigation Group

Mar 1994

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In Lunar and Planetary Inst., The Twenty-Fifth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: P-Z p 1233-1234 (SEE N94-35448 11

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Earth Orbital Environments, Long Duration Exposure Facility, Meteorite Craters, Meteoritic Damage, Meteoroids, Particulates, Aluminum, Data Bases, Frames, Space Debris

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Fiscal Year 1994 will bring to a close the initial investigative activities associated with the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). LDEF was a 14-faced spacecraft (i.e., 12-sided cylinder and two ends) which housed 54 different experimental packages in low-Earth orbit (LEO) from Apr. 1984 to Jan. 1990 (i.e., for approx. 5.75 years). Since LDEF's return, the Meteoroid & Debris Special Investigation Group (M&D SIG) has been examining various LDEF components in order to better understand and define the LEO particulate environment. Members of the M&D SIG at JSC in Houston, TX have been contributing to these studies by carefully examining and documenting all impact events found on LDEF's 6061-T6 aluminum Intercostals (i.e., one of the spacecraft's structural frame components). Unlike all other hardware on LDEF, the frame exposed significantly large surface areas of a single homogeneous material in all (i.e., 26) possible LDEF pointing directions. To date, 28 of the 68 Intercostals in the possession of the M&D SIG have been documented. This data, as well as similar information from various LDEF investigators, can be accessed through the M&D SIG Database which is maintained at JSC.

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