en.Wedoany.com Reported - CS Hyde Company, a processor and supplier of high-performance materials, focuses on material outgassing in space environments. Under vacuum conditions, materials release volatile compounds; even trace amounts of outgassing can contaminate sensitive components, interfere with signals, and affect adhesive performance.
"Typically, when materials outgas, these molecules don't just disappear," said Arik Barrera, Marketing Manager at CS Hyde Company. "They migrate and eventually deposit on nearby surfaces. In spacecraft applications, they can coat optics and sensors. Even microscopic layers can degrade performance, especially in telescopes or cameras that rely on precise light transmission."
Standards such as ASTM E595 and NASA specifications help engineers select low-outgassing materials suitable for space environments. These materials need to be processed into forms like adhesive-backed tapes for integration into assemblies. Barrera noted that this simplifies installation, with common applications including component wrapping, layer bonding, or protective coverings.
Tapes for space applications combine polymer film substrates with low-outgassing adhesives. Depending on the application, processors may use films such as Kapton polyimide, Mylar PET, PTFE fluoropolymer, and PEEK. Kapton HN is used for general engineering, while carbon-filled Kapton XC is a conductive version suitable for satellites.
CS Hyde Company custom-laminates high-performance acrylic adhesives, such as 3M 966, for low-outgassing tape constructions. These adhesives offer high mechanical and dielectric strength, and resistance to solvents, UV radiation, and extreme temperatures. Barrera pointed out that 3M 966 is already a low-outgassing adhesive compliant with ASTM-E595, providing strong adhesion while reducing contamination risk, and its carrier-free design minimizes mass and thickness, reducing additional outgassing sources.
Many high-performance films are not supplied as ready-to-use adhesive products. CS Hyde primarily converts these materials into usable components, involving processing of tapes, high-performance films, industrial fabrics, silicone rubber, and adhesives. Work includes converting standard roll stock into specific products based on customer drawings, using surface treatment, pressure lamination, slitting, rewinding, and tight-tolerance die cutting. Surface treatment makes normally non-adhesive films bondable, while die cutting is used for specialized components with stringent requirements. The company can also handle custom batches or specific lengths of adhesive laminations, which is practical when a project requires only 5 yards instead of a larger minimum order quantity.
Processed low-outgassing tapes are used in various space applications, including thermal insulation attachments that secure multi-layer insulation (MLI) blankets to spacecraft surfaces, as well as wire harness and cable management. Additionally, these materials are used in flexible printed circuits and sensor assemblies, where their high-density design requires clean, stable materials, as outgassing can cause corrosion and damage circuits. Low-outgassing tapes also support satellite systems requiring thermal stability and electrostatic control.
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