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Space debris and micrometeoroid impact on spacecraft elements: Experimental simulation

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We study experimentally how optical, electrical, and physical properties of spacecraft surface elements (optical glasses, “metal-insulator-metal” structures, and solar arrays) change upon bombardment by high-speed particles of submicron and micron size. For particle acceleration, we use an electrodynamic accelerator.

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  1. Samara State Aerospace University, Samara, Russia

    M. P. Kalaev & N. D. Semkin

  2. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    L. S. Novikov

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Original Russian Text © M.P. Kalaev, N.D. Semkin, L.S. Novikov, 2012, published in Fizika i Khimiya Obrabotki Materialov, 2012, No. 3, pp. 30–36.

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Kalaev, M.P., Semkin, N.D. & Novikov, L.S. Space debris and micrometeoroid impact on spacecraft elements: Experimental simulation. Inorg. Mater. Appl. Res. 4, 205–210 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075113313030052

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Keywords

  • electrodynamic accelerator for particles
  • micrometeoroid
  • surface degradation
  • shock flash
  • scattering indicatrix
  • spectral transmittance