A UNIFIED SPACE ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS DATABASE FOR RUSSIAN AND NORTH AMERICAN ORGANIC AND INORGANIC MATERIALS

摘要

The merging of the Karpov database and SORIC's SOLEXIS~(TM) database would be a significant achievement, and a major materials selection and research tool for the international space community. The subject areas complement each other, and as stated in the Introduction there are numerous direct and indirect benefits that would result from such a merger. A feasibility study is underway and funding for the project is being sought. A serious treatment of the materials selection process is one of the best investments that a program manager of a high performance space system can make, from budgetary, schedule and systems engineering points of view. With a database merger, the users will have even more comprehensive, accurate, up to date data and information for surfaces and materials which will: 1. Substantially improves the ultimate system performance and minimize the risk of system failure and thus the cost of damage control; 2. Substantially reduces the time, cost, and scope of a materials pre-selection process and/or measurement program simply because the optical, mechanical and thermal designers for high performance optical systems have not had ready access to the data and information in a single source before; 3. Substantially increases the depth and competitiveness of proposals so that proper attention is given to the selection of surfaces and materials, which is usually critical to the system performance. Both the Karpov Institute and SORIC have large additional quantities of materials not yet in either database. The Karpov Institute, for instance, has accumulated more than 1000 materials, presented in the form of 4000 electronic entries and has began to develop a list of foreign analogous materials to be able to compare Russian and foreign data on radiation stability. SORIC, has approximately 100,000 optical scatter curves, and data for 6000 surfaces and materials commonly employed in optical systems, that is not yet in the SOLEXIS~(TM)database and efforts are underway to include this data.