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In this paper, the results of exposing materials to AO in the ESTEC 5eV pulsed laser ground-based facility are discussed and compared with those obtained from an AO experiment flown on a non-recoverable micro-satellite (STRV-1a launched into GTO in June 1994). Due to power and mass constraints, silver actinometers were adopted for the flight experiment. In order to evaluate the AO environment and to measure the erosion rates of selected materials, sensors comprising both bare silver films and silver films coated with PE, PIFE, carbon and silica were constructed. The experiment worked successfully and provided results which are being interpreted in the light of the ground based research.
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Harris, I.L., Chambers, A.R., Roberts, G.T. (1999). A Study of Atomic Oxygen (AO) Degradation by Spaceflight Experiment and Ground-Based Simulation. In: Kleiman, J.I., Tennyson, R.C. (eds) Protection of Materials and Structures from the Low Earth Orbit Space Environment. Space Technology Proceedings, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4768-2_5
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