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This document establishes a guideline for the ground-based environmental testing of thermal control materials (TCMs) applied on spacecraft’s surface. This document describes the test methods of environmental testing: charged particle radiation(s), solar ultraviolet (UV), atomic oxygen (AO), and thermal cycling. The above-mentioned four environmental conditions are specified in this document. Other environmental effects such as contamination effect of the Xenon ion engines plume(so called artificial effect) are not covered in this document. Typical TCMs include, but are not limited to, paint, silicate, film, anodic oxide, and glass (optical solar reflector, OSR). Other materials, to which similar requirements apply, can refer to this document. This document is devoted to material estimation/evaluation tests and may be tailored according to specific applications.