Protection of Materials and Structures from Space Environment: ICPMSE-6 [Hardcover]

This publication presents the proceedings of ICPMSE-6, the sixth international conference on Protection of Materials and Structures from Space Environment, held in Toronto May 1-3, 2002. The ICPMSE series of meetings became an important part of the LEO space community since it was started in 1991. Since then, the meeting has grown steadily, attracting a large number of engineers, researchers, managers, and scientists from industrial companies, scientific institutions and government agencies in Canada, U. S. A. , Asia, and Europe, thus becoming a true international event. This years meeting is gaining even stronger importance with the resumption of the ISS and other space projects in LEO, GEO and Deep Space. To reflect on these activities, the topics in the program have been extended to include protection of materials in GEO and Deep Space. The combination of a broad selection of technical and scientific topics addressed by internationally known speakers with the charm of Toronto and the hospitality of the organizers brings participants back year after year. The conference was hosted and organized by Integrity Testing Laboratory Inc. (ITL), and held at the University of Torontos Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). The meeting was sponsored by the Materials and Manufacturing Ontario (MMO) and the CRESTech, two Ontario Centres of Excellence; Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR/NL); MD Robotics; EMS Technologies; The Integrity Testing Laboratory (ITL); and the UTIAS.Section A.- A New Era for Canada in Space.- Space and Atmospheric Environments: From Low Earth Orbits to Deep Space.- Materials Interactions with Space Environment: International Space Station - May 2000 to May 2002.- Photoconductivity in Transparent Arcproof Coatings.- Effects of Space Environment Factors on Optical Materials for Space Application.- A Study of Synergistic Radiation Effects of Protons and Electrons on Teflon FEP/Al Degradation.- Dose Rate Effects in Polymer Materials Irradilƒ¸