Posted on 10/23/2021 10:40:09 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Technically speaking, a micrometeoroid is a tiny piece of rock that under normal circumstances (like say after passing through Earth’s atmosphere) would pose no danger. The problem is these things are never to be found in normal circumstances, and are known to travel through space at speeds of over 22,000 mph (35,400 kph). At those speeds, and with virtually no way to detect them in time, they’re like cannon shells for anyone or anything standing in their way.
The Glenn Research Center is the place where something called Ballistic Impact Lab resides. That would be a facility that houses a 40-foot-long air gun capable of shooting out one end various projectiles at speeds that can reach 2,000 mph (3,200 kph). Not quite the speed of a meteorite, but given how they shoot steel ball bearings, among other things, the results should come close enough.
A number of textiles and fabrics for Artemis have already been tested by NASA engineers this way, as the race is on to find out things like how many layers would be needed to stop micrometeoroid penetration.
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Look further down the thread, Poindexter.
—”it took out an alien invader low-orbit spacecraft “
Gerald Bull was working on something similar for Iraq.
IIRC Mossad took him out.
—” Close? What?”
This is government work.
And it gets worse; the suits are made by the lowest bidder.
Worse still a bra maker!!!
“air gun capable of shooting out one end”
well, yes, anything coming out the back would be sub-optimal...
Not at all. They had tracks laid out in a circle.
Meteorites are 22M mph.
The air gun is 2M mph
Yep, about .220 Swift type velocity.
Why the breathless sounding article?
—”had tracks laid out in a circle.”
Answers that, thanks.
Hear that Taiwan? Silent air canons shooting thousands of ball bearings at 150 incoming jets at 2000 mph! Instant hamburger!. Oops!
I was wrong. If you look further down the thread it’s 22,000 mph.
Well, the destroyed spacecraft was on the ground, as I recall, and the railway gun didn’t last long after it fired, either. I need to dig those books out and reread them. The first four were better than the following four.
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