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RAP opportunity at Air Force Research Laboratory     AFRL

Spacecraft Materials Properties for Spacecraft Charging

Location

Space Vehicles Directorate, RV/Space and Planetary Sciences

opportunity location
13.40.01.B7497 Kirtland Air Force Base, NM 871175776

Advisers

name email phone
Ryan Carl Hoffmann ryan.hoffmann@spaceforce.mil 505-853-2939

Description

This opportunity consists of measuring, analyzing, and evaluating spacecraft materials properties that have a direct bearing on spacecraft charging (i.e., bulk and surface resistivities, dielectric constants, secondary electron emission, and photoemission). Measurements of materials properties and/or charging of materials under electron beam irradiation will be made using laboratory facilities at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Special attention will be paid to changes of materials properties and spacecraft charging with temperature, contamination, radiation dose, and/or vacuum aging.

 

key words
Spacecraft charging; Materials properties; Space environment;

Eligibility

Citizenship:  Open to U.S. citizens
Level:  Open to Postdoctoral and Senior applicants

Stipend

Base Stipend Travel Allotment Supplementation
$80,000.00 $5,000.00

$3,000 Supplement for Doctorates in Engineering & Computer Science

Experience Supplement:
Postdoctoral and Senior Associates will receive an appropriately higher stipend based on the number of years of experience past their PhD.

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