1 Scope
This document establishes the main requirements for:
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— a choice of coating materials and coatings for space applications;
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— processes and procedures for the verification of coating materials;
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— processes of preparation and quality control of the painted surface;
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— the quality control of the applied coatings.
This document also describes the causes of possible defects in coatings.
This document is applicable to coating materials and coatings based on them; it is intended for use by manufacturers of space systems products
for various surfaces of spacecraft’s and its constitutive parts (on-board systems,
facilities, tools, electronic component base products) with long active lifetimes.