MISSE Enables Exposure Testing to Phase-Change Materials

Did you know that our MISSE flight facility on the ISS can provide exposure to all four directional faces (Ram, Wake, Nadir, Zenith)?
On MISSE-14, phase-change materials (PCMs) were exposed in space along two different orientations–Zenith (deep space view, away from earth and grazing atomic oxygen (AO) and highest solar/most UV exposure) and Wake (general space exposure, away from the direction of ISS travel and moderate solar/UV exposure).
Learn more about this experiment from this recent Nature journal article, “Versatile spaceborne photonics with chalcogenide phase-change materials.”
Excerpt from the article: Key advances have also been made in material survivability qualification through the Materials International Space Station Experiment-14 (MISSE-14) mission.