Silica aerogel for capturing intact interplanetary dust particles for the Tanpopo experiment

Autor:	Tabata, Makoto, Yano, Hajime, Kawai, Hideyuki, Imai, Eiichi, Kawaguchi, Yuko, Hashimoto, Hirofumi, Yamagishi, Akihiko
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Zdroj:	Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 45(1-2) (2015) 225
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1007/s11084-015-9423-8
Popis:	In this paper, we report the progress in developing a silica-aerogel-based cosmic dust capture panel for use in the Tanpopo experiment on the International Space Station (ISS). Previous studies revealed that ultralow-density silica aerogel tiles comprising two layers with densities of 0.01 and 0.03 g/cm$^3$ developed using our production technique were suitable for achieving the scientific objectives of the astrobiological mission. A special density configuration (i.e., box framing) aerogel with a holder was designed to construct the capture panels. Qualification tests for an engineering model of the capture panel as an instrument aboard the ISS were successful. Sixty box-framing aerogel tiles were manufactured in a contamination-controlled environment. Comment: Proceedings of 2nd Joint International Conference, ISSOL - the International Astrobiology Society and Bioastronomy (Commission 51 of the International Astronomical Union) (Origins 2014), published in Orig. Life Evol. Biosph., 6 pages, 1 figure
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02225 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv