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Appendix C Summary of Procedures Currently Used to Assess Bioburden in Spacecraft Assembly Clean Rooms and on Spacecraft
Pages 138-139

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... the level of microbial contamination on spacecraft hardware in relation to the known or anticipated environments of the target planets. Deviation from these procedures is not permitted unless written approval from NASA's planetary protection officer is granted.
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... The same assay methods are used to assess bioburden during the assembly, test, and launch operations by the mission team and later by the designee of the Planetary Protection Office to certify and validate required bioburden and cleanliness levels. · Surfaces of piece-parts (subcomponent-sized hardware pieces)


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