Experimental test facilities for representative characterization of space used materials

T. Paulmier (1) , B. Dirassen (1) , M. Belhaj (1) , V. Inguimbert (1) , S. Duzellier (1) , C. Pons (1) , S. Rémaury (2) , D. Payan (2)

1 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Toulouse]
2 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]

Dedicated experimental facilities have been developed at ONERA and CNES (Toulouse, France) for the electrical qualification of space used materials and the extraction of the different physical parameters steering their charging behaviour under electron irradiation. These facilities allow working in a large energy range between few eV up to several MeV, a large temperature range (down to -150°C and up to 600°C depending on the facility) and at high vacuum level. This paper aims at presenting the technical characteristics of these different facilities.

Mots clés: SPACE-USED MATERIALS; ELECTRON IRRADIATION

Domaines: Physique de l'espace [physics.space-ph]; Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

T. Paulmier, B. Dirassen, M. Belhaj, V. Inguimbert, S. Duzellier, et al.. Experimental test facilities for representative characterization of space used materials. 14th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference (SCTC 2016), Apr 2016, NOORDWIJK, Netherlands. ⟨hal-01371858⟩