DEFINITION:
Includes materials not yet used in space but presenting potential interest.
(Source: ESA TD 24A)
SUBDOMAINS:
- Material Assessment: Including basic properties, possibility to scale-up, limitations.
- Nanotechnology: Covering development, manufacture and test of nanotubes, nano-fibres, nano-coatings.
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Upper level
Sections at this level
- 01 Structural Design and Verification, Methods and Tools
- 02 Special & Advanced types of Structures
- 03 Damage Tolerance & Health Monitoring
- 04 Launcher, re-entry and planetary vehicle structures
- 05 Meteoroid & Debris protection (shield design and analysis)
- 06 Novel Materials & Materials Technology
- 07 Material Processes (including modelling of behaviour and properties and obsolescence)
- 08 Cleanliness & Sterilization
- 09 Space environments effects on materials & processes
- 10 Materials for Electronics Assemblies
- 11 Mechanisms engineering and core technology
- 12 Release mechanisms
- 13 Mechanisms control electronics
- 14 MEMS & special types of mechanisms