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November 10, 2000 - Veriteq has announced that NASA will be using Veriteq data loggers for the "Materials on the International Space Station Experiment" (MISSE) and that Veriteq is now a NASA industry partner.
The Veriteq products used so far for the MISSE are the SP-1000-1S and the SP-1400-4SX precision temperature data loggers. Factors that were important in the selection of the products were time-base accuracy, long battery and memory life, fast thermal response time, vibration and G-force resilience, and vacuum survivability. An additional factor was an ability to handle the wide temperature swings experienced in space, particularly as the space station moves from direct sun exposure to being in the earth's shadow.
NASA applications of the equipment so far have involved the integration of data logging capability into other NASA measurement instrumentation and for precision temperature measurement in externally mounted Passive Experiment Containers (PECs). Each PEC consists of various sample trays, carousels, and plates as well as an atomic-oxygen pinhole camera. These containers will be attached to selected locations on the space station and exposed to designated orientations for periods up to three years.
MISSE is a cooperative effort with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Boeing, NASA Langley Research Center, and a number of other leaders in the aerospace community. The project's purpose is to test the effects of the space environment around the ISS on different materials over extended periods of time.
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