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NASA-LLIS-0322

Lessons Learned - Radiation, Effect on Windows and Optical Instruments

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Organization: NASA
Publication Date: 28 May 1993
Status: active
Page Count: 2
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Description of Driving Event:

Experience on the Soviet Space Station showed that long exposure to space radiation affects the transparency of glass and that this effect is reduced by using quartz glass coated with cerium oxide.

Document History

NASA-LLIS-0322
May 28, 1993
Lessons Learned - Radiation, Effect on Windows and Optical Instruments
Description of Driving Event: Experience on the Soviet Space Station showed that long exposure to space radiation affects the transparency of glass and that this effect is reduced by using quartz...
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