Experimental impacts into Teflon targets and LDEF thermal blankets

Details Experimental impacts into Teflon targets and LDEF thermal blankets Experimental impacts into Teflon targets and LDEF thermal blankets

Mar 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994lpi....25..567h&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., The Twenty-Fifth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: H-O p 567-568 (SEE N94-36136 11-9

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Delaminating, Earth Orbital Environments, Hypervelocity Impact, Impact Damage, Projectile Cratering, Spacecraft Construction Materials, Teflon (Trademark), Thermal Insulation, Binders (Materials), Long Duration Exposure Facility, Oxidation, Penetration, Sandwich Structures, Silver

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The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) exposed approximately 20 sq m of identical thermal protective blankets, predominantly on the Ultra-Heavy Cosmic Ray Experiment (UHCRE). Approximately 700 penetration holes greater than 300 micron in diameter were individually documented, while thousands of smaller penetrations and craters occurred in these blankets. As a result of their 5.7 year exposure and because they pointed into a variety of different directions relative to the orbital motion of the nonspinning LDEF platform, these blankets can reveal important dynamic aspects of the hypervelocity particle environment in near-earth orbit. The blankets were composed of an outer teflon layer (approximately 125 micron thick), followed by a vapor-deposited rear mirror of silver (less than 1000 A thick) that was backed with an organic binder and a thermal protective paint (approximately 50 to 75 micron thick), resulting in a cumulative thickness (T) of approximately 175 to 200 microns for the entire blanket. Many penetrations resulted in highly variable delaminations of the teflon/metal or metal/organic binder interfaces that manifest themselves as 'dark' halos or rings, because of subsequent oxidation of the exposed silver mirror. The variety of these dark albedo features is bewildering, ranging from totally absent, to broad halos, to sharp single or multiple rings. Over the past year experiments were conducted over a wide range of velocities (i.e., 1 to 7 km/s) to address velocity dependent aspects of cratering and penetrations of teflon targets. In addition, experiments were performed with real LDEF thermal blankets to duplicate the LDEF delaminations and to investigate a possible relationship of initial impact conditions on the wide variety of dark halo and ring features.

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