Abstract:Research progress on storage aging tests of silicone rubber for spaceflight application was reviewed
and analyzed in this paper. There are three problems in the present storage aging researches. Firstly, accelerated aging
tests (be abbreviated to AAT) were largely conducted but natural aging tests (be abbreviated to AAT) were conducted
much fewer. Secondly, AAT with a single accelerated stress was largely conducted but AAT with multi accelerated
stress was conducted much fewer. Finally, the variations of macroscopical performances had attracted too much
attention but the aging mechanism and variations of microcosmic structures were concerned too little. Based on the
problems mentioned above, three research fields including data accumulation in AAT and its applications, AAT with
multi accelerated stress and aging mechanism of silicone rubber should be emphasized in the future researches.