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Photometric analysis of a space shuttle water ventingPresented here is a preliminary interpretation of a recent experiment conducted on Space Shuttle Discovery (Mission STS 29) in which a stream of liquid supply water was vented into space at twilight. The data consist of video images of the sunlight-scattering water/ice particle cloud that formed, taken by visible light-sensitive intensified cameras both onboard the spacecraft and at the AMOS ground station near the trajectory's nadir. This experiment was undertaken to study the phenomenology of water columns injected into the low-Earth orbital environment, and to provide information about the lifetime of ice particles that may recontact Space Shuttle orbits later. The findings about the composition of the cloud have relevance to ionospheric plasma depletion experiments and to the dynamics of the interaction of orbiting spacecraft with the environment.
Document ID
19910011413
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Viereck, R. A. (Photometrics, Inc., Woburn MA., United States)
Murad, E. (Photometrics, Inc., Woburn MA., United States)
Pike, C. P. (Photometrics, Inc., Woburn MA., United States)
Kofsky, I. L. (RADEX, Inc., Bedford MA., United States)
Trowbridge, C. A. (Spectral Sciences, Inc., Burlington MA., United States)
Rall, D. L. A. (Air Force Geophysics Lab. Hanscom AFB, MA, United States)
Satayesh, A. (Air Force Geophysics Lab. Hanscom AFB, MA, United States)
Berk, A. (Air Force Geophysics Lab. Hanscom AFB, MA, United States)
Elgin, J. B. (Spectral Sciences, Inc., Burlington MA., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Fourth Annual Workshop on Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR 90)
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Accession Number
91N20726
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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