Hypervelocity impacts on solar cells - Observations, experiments, and empirical scaling laws

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6-10, 1997, Pages 627-638

  Paul, Klaus G ^a   Igenbergs, Eduard B ^a   Berthoud, Lucinda ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITES; SOLAR CELLS; SPACECRAFT; SURFACES;

HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS;

SPACE DEBRIS;

EID: 0031354943     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(97)87450-7     Document Type: Article

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