Hypervelocity Impact (HVI)

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Sep 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007stin...0731926g&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, NASA/CR-2007-214885/VOL8

Physics

Hypervelocity Impact, Targets, Heat Shielding, Impact Tests, Leading Edges, Space Shuttles, Wings, Tiles, Impact Damage, Meteorite Collisions, Space Debris

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During 2003 and 2004, the Johnson Space Center's White Sands Testing Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico conducted hypervelocity impact tests on the space shuttle wing leading edge. Hypervelocity impact tests were conducted to determine if Micro-Meteoroid/Orbital Debris impacts could be reliably detected and located using simple passive ultrasonic methods. The objective of Targets A-1, Ag-1, B-1, and Bg-1 was to study hypervelocity impacts on the reinforced Shuttle Heat Shield Tiles of the Wing. Impact damage was detected using lightweight, low power instrumentation capable of being used in flight.

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