ESA Thermal vacuum outgassing test for the screening of space materials
From NASA-STD-6016B,STANDARD MATERIALS AND PROCESSES REQUIREMENTS FOR SPACECRAFT, Section 4.2.3.6 Thermal Vacuum Stability:
...Acceptance criteria as follows:
(1) ≤0.1 percent collected volatile condensable materials (CVCM).
(2) ≤1.0 percent total mass loss (TML) less water vapor recovery (WVR), except that
a higher mass loss is permitted if this mass loss has no effect on the functionality
of the material itself and no effect on the functionality of any materials,
components, or systems that could be adversely affected by the subject mass loss.
Many materials contain absorbed water, but the loss of absorbed water does not normally affect
functionality; so the WVR (a measure of the total water vapor lost in the ASTM E595-15 test) is
subtracted from the TML.
... [for] surfaces with optical properties. The approach taken depends on the specific program needs but may include
lowering the CVCM requirement to ≤0.01 percent CVCM, use of optical surfaces in testing to
characterize the effects of deposition, or measurement of outgassing deposition rates as
functions of source and target temperature
NASA outgassing data: http://outgassing.nasa.gov (backup copy of table): https://gist.github.com/douglase/59f60f348acc1364048a78d0299af434
ESA Materials database (not maintained): http://esmat.esa.int/
Space Materials Database: https://www.spacematdb.com/spacemat/
The LIGO Vacuum Compatible Materials List
Materials in Vacuum FAQThe Kurt J. Lesker Company’s TechInfo Department.
Thermal Vacuum Topic Small Satellite Reliability Initiative (SSRI) Knowledge Base.
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Dunn, Barrie D. 2016. Materials and Processes: For Spacecraft and High Reliability Applications. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319233611
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