1. Status/plans for the development of small scale lab. experiments

2. Present Facility
20 
12 

3. Ongoing Project
Mechanisms of lunar dust adhesion to surfaces (collaboration with Ball Aerospace & Tech. Corp.)
Substrate (untreated, treated and coated) preparation (Ball Aerospace).
Adhesion between JSC-1 simulants with various sizes and substrates in air (Ball Aerospace).
Contact charging measurements related to image force (CU’s plasma lab.).

4. Ongoing Project (Continuing)
Dust adhesion in vacuum (CU’s plasma lab).
Setup for centrifuge measurement

5. Ongoing Project (Continuing)
Dust adhesion in plasma environment (CU’s plasma lab.).

6. Near Future Plans
A coming UV lamp will be tested and calibrated in the small chamber.
Power supply
Zr or Pt sheet
UV lamp
Vacuum
pump

7. Plans (continuing)
42 
25 
Top part of the chamber

8. Plans (continuing)
Photoelectron sheath will be characterized with a larger chamber and a lamp array assembled as a UV source.
UV lamp array
Emissive
probe
Langmuir
probe
Zr surface
UV Lamp Array