Spacecraft Contamination: Sources and Prevention

This volume contains the results of current research in the field of spacecraft contamination, drawn primarily from the thermophysics sessions of the AIAA 21st Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno, NV in January 1983 and the AIAA 18th Thermophysics Conference in Montreal, Canada in June 1983. The papers selected were reviewed, revised, updated, and organized into three chapters covering contamination, the sources and prevention of contamination, and the properties and effects of contamination.