The Whipple bumper is most effective at high impact velocities.

Because of the high impact speed, little of the impacting material survives unaltered.

The role of the bumper is to break up, melt or vaporize a high velocity object on impact.

PNP calculations are based on meteoroid and debris environment models and on the ballistic limit curves obtained in hydrocode simulations and hypervelocity impact experiments.

Solar flares are enormous magnetic outbursts from the Sun that bombard the Earth with high speed subatomic particles.

The protection of space objects from the effects of impact with hypervelocity particles involves research in the following main areas

(a) First impact at a speed higher than 90 of the critical speed referred to in 41.3.7.2 and

(j) Produce lethal levels of heat and blast

Under ESA contract, EMI investigates the hypervelocity impact effects on pressurized vessels, especially for application in satellites.

In order to relate the size of the impact feature with the size of the particle, ground calibration tests (hypervelocity impact tests) have been performed for different materials.

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In order to relate the size of the impact feature with the size of the particle, ground calibration tests (hypervelocity impact tests) have been performed for different materials.

Other investigations by EMI are being conducted under subcontracts to ESA programmes for the Cassini Huygens mission, the effects of debris impacts on the thermal protection system (TPS) have been simulated by tests and for the European ISS Element COF, hypervelocity impact tests on samples for the reinforcement of the impact shielding of very high exposed locations have been performed.

The vulnerability assessment included using hypervelocity impact equations as well as actually subjecting spacecraft hardware to hypervelocity impact tests at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

Matra also collaborated with ONERA CERT of France in order to carry out hypervelocity impacts simulations to distinguish between the morphology of impact sites created by elliptical impactors and impact sites created by oblique incidence spherical impactors.L. Berthoud, J. C. Mandeville, Distinguishing Between Oblique Incidence and Non Spherical Projectile Impacts, Proceedings of the Second European Space Debris Conference, ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 17 19 March 1997, ESA SP 393.

Methods have been elaborated and are being further refined for calculating the hypervelocity impact (at particle velocities of 5 15 km s) of space debris particles with the screens of orbital systems and space objects.

The objectives of the development of the shaped charge techniques for the launching of hypervelocity projectiles at the Battelle Research Institute have been achieved by reproducible results for normal and oblique impacts at velocities above 11 km s with projectile masses of about 1 gram.

The conclusion of the impact testing with superfast jets with tip velocities in the range of 25 km s is that there is uncertainty in the determination of projectile mass and in the state equation of the jet tip, so that the impact phenomena is certainly quite different to the other methods of debris impact simulation.

This is a combination of ultraviolet degradation, atomic oxygen erosion, and hypervelocity impact.

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Attack speed.

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Ramming speed.

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This type of round uses a pyrotechnically initiated (PIE) fuze. It works by the impact of the round rapidly crushing explosive materials causing the materials to explode.

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The vulnerability assessment included using hypervelocity impact equations, as well as actually subjecting spacecraft hardware to hypervelocity impact tests at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

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Their findings, in line with a shock acceleration model, suggest a greater effect than had previously been assumed.

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This vulnerability assessment included using hypervelocity impact equations as well as actually subjecting spacecraft hardware to hypervelocity impact tests at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

Ground based tests of spacecraft shields are limited, as testing for the entire range of possible impact velocities is not possible.

During the impact of Hidalgo, the seismometers will reach saturation due to the high accelerations.

The University of Kent continues its work on retrieved surface analysis and hypervelocity impact modelling.

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A basic problem is to distinguish between impacts of meteoroids and man made debris.

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In order to ensure the effectiveness and speed of anti shock financing, it would need to be set aside upfront so as to be available as genuine financing against contingencies, rather than after the shock when its negative effects had already had an impact on the economy.

The most hazardous events are considered to be collisions of orbital systems and space objects with debris particles of millimetre to 10 centimetre size mass 0.1 20g and with impact velocities (80 of impacts) of 8 12 km s.

Most of the investigations of the past year in the field of hypervelocity impact simulation have been continued.

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