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Brian,



I'm disappointed! 

Vertical surface is always the up bit.



19th law of Trekkies - no matter who you are chasing/chasing you in space, you are always the same way up as your opponent. When did you ever see the USS Enterprise do a flip to meet another ship?



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-----Original Message-----

From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Ellis

Sent: 30 May 2007 07:37

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Subject: Re: [TN] Exposed copper (space applications)



How CAN you have a vertical surface in space?



Brian



Gary Bremer wrote:

> Where is it stated that the conductive pattern can not have any exposed 

> copper on the vertical surfaces?  Is that any empirical data that 

> supports a failure mode if there is exposed copper on the vertical 

> surfaces of a conductive pattern? I have searched MIL-STD-2000, 

> NASA-STD-8739-2 and NASA-STD-8739-3 but can only find that it is 

> allowed. Where I work those with PhD's worry about exposed copper on the 

> vertical edges of the conductive patterns and are scared to allow to 

> move forward because of possible failure modes with a deep space launch. 

> For my limited knowledge of metallurgy: after copper is exposed to 

> moisture and oxygen, corrosion takes place only on the surface and does 

> not migrate any further. I do have access to NHB5300 to see if exposed 

> copper was not allowed.

> 

> 

> Gary Bremer

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