This publication presents the proceedings of ICPMSE-7, the Seventh International
Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures from Space Environment,
held in Toronto May 10–13, 2004.
The ICPMSE series of meetings became an important part of the LEO space
community since it was started in 1991. Since then, the meeting has grown steadily,
establishing itself as the only North American event covering the various aspects
of materials protection in LEO and attracting a large number of engineers, researchers,
managers, and scientists from industrial companies, scientific institutions
and government agencies in Canada, USA, Asia, and Europe, thus becoming
a true international event. The ICPMSE-7 meeting continued the tradition of the
previous meetings including in the program the topics on protection of materials
in GEO and Deep Space.