Observations on hypervelocity impact damage sustained by multi-layered insulation foils exposed in low earth orbit and simulated in the laboratory

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 1-10, 2003, Pages 307-316

  Graham, Giles A ^a,e,f   Kearsley, Anton T ^b   Wright, Ian P ^a   Burchell, Mark J ^c   Taylor, Emma A ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypervelocity impact; Micrometeoroids and space debris; Multi layered foils

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMPACT TESTING; IONIZING RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOR IMPACTS; MORPHOLOGY; ORBITAL LABORATORIES; ORBITS; OXYGEN; QUENCHING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE STATIONS;

HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT (HVI); LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO); MICROMETEOROIDS AND SPACE DEBRIS; MULTI-LAYERED FOILS;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 2342454487     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2003.09.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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