SEE FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS
GENERAL
1998 SEE Flight Experiments Workshop Final Report
Mir Photo Survey
Space Environments and Technology Archive System (SETAS)
Mir Environmental Effects Payloads (MEEP):
Project Manager: Greg Stover
MS 356
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA 23681-0001
Phone: 804-864-7097 Fax: 804-864-7890
E-Mail:
Gregory.Stover-1@nasa.gov
MEEP is a common interface to shuttle and
Mir (a passive experiment carrier). MEEP consists of the
following four international Space Station (ISS) phase 1
risk mitigation experiments:
Goal: Capture hypervelocity
particles in the Mir Environment using low density,
highly porous SiO2 aerogel and return them to Earth for
detailed mineralogical and compositional analysis. Of
particular interest is the relative abundance of
metallic versus oxidized aluminum, and how this ratio
changes with absolute particle size.
Goal: Assess and characterize the
natural micrometeoroid and the man-made debris
environments in the Mir high inclination orbit.
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Passive Optical Sample Assemblies (POSA):
POSA-1
Principal Investigator: Mr. James Zwiener
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Phone: 256-544-2528 Fax: 256-544-5103
E-Mail:
jim.zwiener@msfc.nasa.gov
Goal: Assessment of the magnitude
of molecular contamination on ISS critical exterior
surfaces in the combined space environment. and quantify
the performance and degradation rate of
candidate/baseline ISS exterior surfaces materials.
Goal: Assessment of the magnitude
of molecular contamination on ISS critical exterior
surfaces in the combined space environment. and quantify
the performance and degradation rate of
candidate/baseline ISS exterior surfaces materials.
It was launched in March of 1996 on STS-76.
The MEEP will be deployed on the Mir/Shuttle Docking Module
and will be retrieved after approximately 1 year.
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