The goals of the ICPMSE-7 meeting, as in the past years, are to facilitate exchanges between members of the various engineering disciplines involved in development of space materials, including such aspects as environmental hazards of Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and Deep Space, ground-based qualification, and in-flight experiments and lessons learned from operational vehicles.

"The effects of various space environment factors like atomic oxygen, vacuum ultraviolet radiation, charging, micrometeoroids, meteoroid showers, etc. on materials and structures in various orbits are discussed. In addition the ways to prevent these effects or reduce them through protection by coatings or modification of affected surfaces are considered in the book. The discussions on development of predictive models of material erosion that will allow the materials engineers and designers of future spacecraft to evaluate materials' behaviour is continued from the past meetings."

RADIATION EFFECTS OF PROTONS AND ELECTRONS ON BACKFIELD SILICON SOLAR CELLS.- SOLAR ARRAY ARCING IN LEO: How Much Charge is Discharged?.- SELF-RESTORATION AS SEU PROTECTION MECHANISM FOR RECONFIGURABLE ON-BOARD COMPUTING PLATFORM.- SYNERGISTIC EFFECT OF PROTONS AND ELECTRONS ON RADIATION DAMAGE OF METHYL SILICONE RUBBER.- INFLUENCE OF ELECTRON RADIATION ON OUTGASSING OF SPACECRAFT MATERIALS.- EFFECT OF SURFACE CHARGING ON THE EROSION RATE OF POLYIMIDE UNDER 5 EV ATOMIC OXYGEN BEAM EXPOSURE.- INFLUENCE OF SPACE ENVIRONMENT ON SPECTRAL OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THERMAL CONTROL COATINGS.- MITIGATION OF THRUSTER PLUME-INDUCED EROSION OF ISS SENSITIVE HARDWARE.- DEGRADATION OF THERMAL CONTROL COATINGS UNDER INFLUENCE OF PROTON IRRADIATION.- MITIGATION OF DAMAGE TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) FROM WATER DUMPS.- INVESTIGATION OF SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF PROTON AND ELECTRON RADIATION ON THE DYEING OF OPTICAL QUARTZ GLASS.- THE ROLE OF "ABNORMAL" ELECTRON FLUXES WITH ENERGY