Synergistic effects on thermal control coatings of SPOT spacecraft

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Sep 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003esasp.540..291r&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Materials in a Space Environment, 16-20 June 2003, Noordwijk, The Netherla

Computer Science

Space Environment, Materials, Synergistic Effects

Scientific paper

The evolutions of the thermo-optical properties of SPOT spacecraft series over more than sixteen years are reported. They exhibit a succession of degradations and recoveries, phased with the solar cycle. They are shown to result from a succession of contamination and contaminant erosion by Atomic Oxygen during solar maxima. The modelling of these phenomena also shows that the erosion of newly deposited contaminants is more effective than the erosion of old contaminants, certainly due to their reticulation by UV. The specific behaviour of the ram face is also thought to result from UV fixation of contaminants.

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