Impact shield to protect spacecraft from micrometeoroids and orbital debris
Whipple shield used on NASA's Stardust probe
The Whipple shield or Whipple bumper, invented by Fred Whipple,[1] is a type of spaced armor shielding to protect crewed and uncrewed spacecraft from hypervelocity impact / collisions with micrometeoroids and orbital debris whose velocities generally range between 3 and 18 kilometres per second (1.9 and 11.2 mi/s). According to NASA, the Whipple shield is designed to withstand collisions with debris up to 1 cm.[2]
^Whipple, Fred L. (1947), "Meteorites and Space Travel", Astronomical Journal, 52: 131, Bibcode:1947AJ.....52Q.131W, doi:10.1086/106009.
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grains. Whipple had already developed a solution to this problem in 1946. Originally known as a "meteor bumper" and now termed the Whippleshield, this...
a less common application, it is used in some spacecraft that use Whippleshields. The first spaced armour was used on iron and steel warships from the...
occurred at 800 to 900 kilometres (500 to 560 mi) altitude. The ISS has Whippleshielding to resist damage from small MMOD. However, known debris with a collision...
significantly increased protection while saving weight. The analogous Whippleshield uses the principle of spaced armour to protect spacecraft from the impacts...
BEAM structural shell are expected to provide impact protection (see Whippleshield) as well as radiation protection, but model calculations need to be...
phase of the mission. The spacecraft was fitted with a 25 cm (9.8 in) whippleshield, similar to the one used on Stardust, on its leading face, designed...
to damage. The station's shields and structure have different designs on the ROS and the USOS. On the USOS, WhippleShields are used. The US segment modules...
by a 1 mm-thick front Whippleshield (1.85 m diameter) and a 12 mm-thick rear Kevlar shield. Mounted on the front dust shield were three piezoelectric...
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