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Characterizing secondary debris impact ejecta
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Schonberg, W. P. |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Description | All spacecraft in low-Earth orbit are subject to high-speed impacts by meteoroids and orbital debris particles. These impacts can damage flight-critical systems which can in turn lead to catastrophic failure of the spacecraft. Therefore, the design of a spacecraft for an Earth-orbiting mission must take into account the possibility of such impacts and their effects on the spacecraft structure and on all of its exposed subsystem components. In addition to threatening the operation of the spacecraft itself, on-orbit impacts also generate a significant amount of ricochet particles. These high-speed particles can destroy critical external spacecraft subsystem and also increase the contamination of the orbital environment. This report presents a summary of the work performed towards the development of an empirical model that characterizes the secondary ejecta created by a high-speed impacta on a typical aerospace structural surface. |
| File Size | 5117197 |
| Page Count | 90 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19990116783 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5m955799 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1999-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Ejecta Equations of State Low Earth Orbits Space Debris Aerospace Environments Mathematical Models Spacecraft Structures Meteoroids Hypervelocity Impact Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
