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The mass loss of spacecraft polyimide films under the action of atomic oxygen and vacuum ultraviolet radiation

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The threshold values of the annual fluence of atomic oxygen (F AO ≈ 1020 cm−2), as well as the ratios of the energy-flux density of vacuum ultraviolet radiation of the solar spectrum to the flux density of atomic oxygen (Φ ν /Φ AO ≈ 8 × 10−15 mJ) were determined, which are characterized the influence of the synergistic effect on the mass loss of Kapton-H, PM-A, and PM-1E polyimide films, which are spacecraft materials.

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    V. A. Shuvalov, N. I. Pis’mennyi, G. S. Kochubei & N. A. Tokmak

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Shuvalov, N.I. Pis’mennyi, G.S. Kochubei, N.A. Tokmak, 2014, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2014, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 106–112.

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Shuvalov, V.A., Pis’mennyi, N.I., Kochubei, G.S. et al. The mass loss of spacecraft polyimide films under the action of atomic oxygen and vacuum ultraviolet radiation. Cosmic Res 52, 99–105 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952514020063

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