PROGRAM:
The affordable routine access to space that our nation needs in the future to maintain world technological, and economic and military superiority requires the development of new generations of materials and material technologies. New affordable materials are the enablers for advanced reusable launch systems and advanced spacecraft systems including optics, sensors, electronics, power, coatings, structural materials and protection. In-situ space testing is an essential part of the development processes for new generations of space materials since terrestrial laboratory facilities cannot simulate the synergistic effects of the combined space environments.
The Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) is an innovative technical concept that has been identified for the ERT Program at Johnson Space Center (JSC) to expand the utilization of the ISS. It is a cooperative experiment involving Principle Investigators from Boeing Phantom Works, the Materials Laboratory at the Air Force Research Laboratory, and NASA’s Langley Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center and Glenn Research Center.
The MISSE utilizes Passive Experiment Containers (PECs) developed by Langley Research Center (LaRC) and first used for ISS Phase I Risk Mitigation Experiments on Mir. The MISSE will characterize the performance of candidate new space materials over the course of approximatelys one and a half and three year exposure periods on-orbit. The MISSE Project Office is located at Langley Research Center/NASA.
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