Protection of Space Materials from the Space Environment: Proceedings of ICPMSE-4, Fourth International Space Conference, held in Toronto, Canada, Apr [Paperback]

This publication presents the proceedings of ICPMSE-4, the fourth international conference on Protection of Materials and Structures from the Low Earth Orbit Space Environment, held in Toronto April 23-24, 1998. The conference was hosted and organized by Integrity Testing Laboratory Inc. (ITL), and held at the University ofToronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). Twenty two industrial companies, six universities and fourteen government agencies from Canada, USA, United Kingdom, France, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and the Netherlands were represented by over 75 participants indicating increasing international co-operation in this critical arena of protection of materials in space. Twenty-seven speakers, world experts in their fields, delivered talks on a wide variety of topics on various aspects of material protection in space. Representatives from the Canadian, American, European and Israeli space agencies as well as from leading space research laboratories ofmajor aerospace industries gathered at UTIAS to discuss the latest developments in the field of material and structure protection from the harsh space environment.1. Monte Carlo Computational Modeling of the Energy Dependence of Atomic Oxygen Undercutting of Protected Polymers.- 2. Dynamics of Atomic-Oxygen-Induced Degradation of Materials.- 3. Generalization of the Predictive Model of Erosion of Carbon-Based Materials by Atomic Oxygen.- 4. Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Characterization of Polymers Modified by Atomic Oxygen and Ultraviolet Radiation.- 5. Effect of Atomic Oxygen Exposures on the Tribological Properties of Molybdenum Disulfide Lubricants.- 6. Influence of Shielding Upon the Structure and Properties of Polymer Composite Materials, Exposed on the Surface of the Mir Orbital Complex.- 7. Cleanliness Support of Vehicle Fairings for Spacecraft.- 8. In situ XPS Studies of Kapton Exposed to 5 eV Atomic Oxygen.- 9. A Low Cost, Lightweight Reusable Sensor for Atomic Oxygen Detection.- 10. Large-Scale ECl3(