An instrument with a super-black materials arrived last Tuesday to the International Space Station. NASA wants to test how the nanomaterial can handle the harsh environment. Cheaper and more sensitive space instruments is the goal.
Ny Teknik recently could tell you about it now blackest material in world, Vantablack absorbing 99.965 percent of the incident light. The record may apply on Earth, but in space holds a material developed by the American space agency Nasa state right now the record.
The company presented for Four years ago a super-black material with between 99.5 and 99.8 percent of the incident light is absorbed. As Vantablack is made up of a dense mat of carbon nanotubes.
The material is supposed to be used to coat surfaces and housings for various cameras , telescopes and instruments used in space. Today disturbed the sensitive measuring instruments of light reflected in the instruments’ surfaces.
In order to test the coating withstand the harsh environment of space has a measuring instrument with the super-black material sent up to the International Space Station. The arrival took place on 12 August.
Right now we are focusing on making our materials as robust as possible. What we lacked in our development is access to space, now we have it, said John Hagopian who led the development of the material.
The evaluation of the material in space will continue for one year. It is hoped that the data would provide more sensitive measurement than today, but the size – and thus the cost to bring them up in space – increases.
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