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Does conformal coating prevent outgassing from plastic parts in space?
It was common to use ceramic packaged chips instead of regular plastic ones.
Since the ceramic chips can be 10000x more expensive and the selection of available parts is also 10000x narrower, there is a motivation for using regular plastic parts, even for space designs (like satellites). So is this a thing? How is the plastic part outgassing prevented or handled? By using conformal coating? Would the coating bubble up from the gasses emitted from the component packages?
It was common to use ceramic packaged chips instead of regular plastic ones.
Since the ceramic chips can be 10000x more expensive and the selection of available parts is also 10000x narrower, there is a motivation for using regular plastic parts, even for space designs (like satellites). So is this a thing? How is the plastic part outgassing prevented or handled? By using conformal coating? Would the coating bubble up from the gasses emitted from the component packages?