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The orbital debris detector consortium: Suppliers of instruments for in-situ measurements of small-particles in the space environmentIndustry and university participants have joined together to form the IMPA:Ct consortium (In-situ Monitors of the Particulate Ambient: Circumterrestrial) which offers a broad range of flight qualified instruments for monitoring the small particle (0.1 micron to 10 cm) environment in space. Instruments are available in 12 months or less at costs ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 million dollars (US) for the total program. Detector technologies represented by these groups are: impact-induced capacitor-discharge (MOS, metal-oxide-silicon), cratering or penetration of electroactive thin film (polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)), impact-plasma detection, acoustic detection, CCD tracking of optical scatter of sunlight, and photodiode detection of optical scatter of laser light. The operational characteristics, general spacecraft interface and resource requirements (mass/power/telemetry), cost and delivery schedules, and points of contact for seven different instruments are presented.
Document ID
19950021249
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Simon, C. G. (Institute for Space Science and Technology, Inc. Gainesville, FL, United States)
Muenzenmeyer, R. (Technical Univ. of Munich, Muchen, Germany)
Tanner, W. G., Jr. (Baylor Univ. Waco, TX., United States)
Uy, O. M. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Laurel, MD., United States)
Skrivanek, R. A. (Visidyne, Inc. Burlington, MA., United States)
Tuzzolino, A. J. (Chicago Univ. Chicago, IL., United States)
Maag, C. (T and M Engineering Glendora, CA., United States)
Wortman, J. J. (North Carolina State Univ. Raleigh, NC., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 1995
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Langley Research Center, LDEF: 69 Months in Space. Third Post-Retrieval Symposium, Part 3
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Accession Number
95N27670
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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