Hypervelocity impacts on HST solar arrays and the debris and meteoroids population

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1243-1253

  Moussi, A ^a,b   Drolshagen, G ^c   McDonnell, J A M ^d   Mandeville, J C ^b   Kearsley, A T ^e   Ludwig, H ^c  

^a CNES   (France)

^b ONERA   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmic dust; Crater; Hypervelocity impact; Impact damage; Meteoroid; Particles flux; Space debris

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUXES; METEOR IMPACTS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TELESCOPES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

COSMIC DUST; CRATER; HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT; IMPACT DAMAGE; METEOROID; PARTICLES FLUXES; SOLAR ARRAYS;

SPACE DEBRIS;

EID: 22644437885     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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