General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

GRAPHITE/EPOXY TUBE WITH ALUMINUM END FITTINGS & PAPER LABELS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

13.3 cm

Width

5.8 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Space Technology

Category

Space science

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

University

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Downsview

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

LDEF WAS LAUNCHED IN APRIL 1984 & RETRIEVED JANUARY 1990

Canada

UTIAS (UNIV. OF TORONTO INSTITUTE FOR AEROSPACE STUDIES) PROVIDED SOLE CANADIAN EXPERIMENT ON LDEF. IT CONSISTED OF VARIETY OF EPOXY MATRIX COMPOSITES WITH GRAPHITE, BORON, & KEVLAR FIBRE REINFORCEMENTS.LDEF HAD NO ON-BOARD POWER BUT UTIAS DESIGNED DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM TO MONITOR 16 CHANNELS OF STRAIN & TEMPERATURE.

Function

SAMPLE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL FLOWN IN SPACE AS PART OF EXPERIMENT TO STUDY SPACE ENVIRONMENT & ITS EFFECTS ON VARIOUS MATERIALS.

Technical

LDEF WAS NASA SATELLITE DEPLOYED FROM SPACE SHUTTLE IN 1984. ITS 57 EXPERIMENTS INVOLVED MORE THAN 200 INVESTIGATORS FROM 10 COUNTRIES. EXPERIMENTS COVERED: 1. MATERIALS, COATINGS & THERMAL SYSTEMS; 2. POWER & PROPULSION; 3. SCIENCE; 4. ELECTRONICS & OPTICS.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

HANDWRITTEN PAPER LABELS READ "CHAR REGION DUE/ TO ATOMIC OXYGEN", "Single/ micromet./ Hit", "IT20/ FOIL HITS", "Two/ Impacts"

Missing

APPEARS COMPLETE

Finish

BLACK GRAPHITE/ METALLIC ALUMINUM/ WHITE PAPER

Decoration

N/A