Effects of micrometeoroid and space debris impacts in grazing incidence telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Carpenter, J D ^a   Abbey, A F ^a   Ambrosi, R M ^a   Wells, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Leverhulme Foundation

Author keywords

CCDs; Constellation X; Hypervelocity impacts; Micrometeoroids; Space debris; Swift; X ray optics; X ray telescopes; XEUS; XMM Newton

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ORBITS; SPACE TELESCOPES; X RAY OPTICS;

CONSTELLATION-X; HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS; MICROMETEOROIDS; XEUS; XMM-NEWTON;

SPACE DEBRIS;

EID: 33749033646     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.677410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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