New contamination engineering technology for active on-orbit surface cleaning

Autor: Jimmy L. Clark, Philip T. Chen, Mark A. Culpepper, Douglas R. Jungwirth, Wilfried Krone-Schmidt
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Optical Systems Contamination and Degradation II: Effects, Measurements, and Control.
ISSN: 0277-786X
Popis: The goal is the Active Cleaning for Space-systems (ACES) project is to develop and demonstrate a new means for on-orbit cleaning of particle contaminants from optical surfaces on satellites. This paper describes the rationale for on-orbit cleaning, a carbon dioxide (CO2) snow cleaning system, and a future Space Shuttle experiment with that system. The experiment and hardware designs are described in some detail to show how all experiment objectives will be met.© (2000) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
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