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STUDY OF CHARGING BEHAVIOUR OF SPACECRAFT SURFACE MATERIALS EVALUA TION OF RTV—Ⅱ AND 13—17 PAINTS

Lu Yusun, Li Hua, Wang Neidong, Liu Yukui (Lanzhou Physics Institute)   

  • Published:1987-10-25

Abstract: In this article, the experimental results of response of the conductivity vs combined environment about RTV-Ⅱ paint and the 13-17 white thermal control paint have been given. The experiments show that first: the conductivity of RTV-Ⅱ almost drops by one order of magnitude every year from 1984 to 1986. Therefore, the change of charging state occures on its surface. second: the response of conductivity of 13-17 paint vs space vacuum is not obvious, but the response of conductivity vs electron and light irradiation is very large. Especially, there is a strong memory effect under light irradiation. It is expected that the charging phenomenon on the paint surface does not appear in orbit when the spacecraft goes into eclipse from sunshine.