Reduction of flight hardware outgassing after integration under a less stringent requirement

David W. Hughes; Glenn P. Rosecrans; Jack J. Triolo; Patricia A. Hansen

doi:10.1117/12.258315

11 November 1996 Reduction of flight hardware outgassing after integration under a less stringent requirement

David W. Hughes, Glenn P. Rosecrans, Jack J. Triolo, Patricia A. Hansen

Proceedings Volume 2864, Optical System Contamination V, and Stray Light and System Optimization; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258315
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

In preparation for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) second servicing mission, hardware which was assembled a decade earlier was refurbished and cleaned to meet a requirement more than an order of magnitude cleaner than the original requirement. The fine guidance sensor (FGS) radial bay module is located in ]close proximity to the HST science instruments; therefore the condemnation sensitivity of the second servicing mission science instruments necessitated the establishment of new FGS contamination requirements. These new requirements are based on a critical optics temperature of minus 88 degrees Celsius; the original FGS outgassing requirements were based on protecting the HST primary mirror, which has an average temperature of plus 10 degrees Celsius. A contamination reduction plan was devised, implemented, and refined, resulting in partial deintegration of the FGS, the use of molecular adsorbers, and the use of a bakeout temperature within 1 degree of Celsius of the maximum survival temperature of the hardware. Final contamination measurements are within 3% of the predicted levels and meet the second servicing mission contamination requirements.

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David W. Hughes, Glenn P. Rosecrans, Jack J. Triolo, and Patricia A. Hansen "Reduction of flight hardware outgassing after integration under a less stringent requirement", Proc. SPIE 2864, Optical System Contamination V, and Stray Light and System Optimization, (11 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258315

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