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Capacitor-type meteoroid-penetration sensors - Description and test results

J. J. Broderick

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Capacitor sensors have been tested and evaluated, in various configurations, under hypervelocity-impact conditions which simulate, as nearly as possible with present laboratory facilities, the impacts of meteoroids in space.Light-gas guns, explosive devices, electrostatic accelerators, and exploding-wire guns have been used.charged sensors were permanently shorted when perforated.When the sensor is substantially recharged it is ready to detect another perforation.

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Capacitor sensors have been tested and evaluated, in various configurations, under hypervelocity-impact conditions which simulate, as nearly as possible with present laboratory facilities, the impacts of meteoroids in space.Light-gas guns, explosive devices, electrostatic accelerators, and exploding-wire guns have been used.charged sensors were permanently shorted when perforated.When the sensor is substantially recharged it is ready to detect another perforation.

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Capacitor sensors have been tested and evaluated, in various configurations, under hypervelocity-impact conditions which simulate, as nearly as possible with present laboratory facilities, the impacts of meteoroids in space.Light-gas guns, explosive devices, electrostatic accelerators, and exploding-wire guns have been used.charged sensors were permanently shorted when perforated.When the sensor is substantially recharged it is ready to detect another perforation.

Key concepts: Meteoroid, Penetration test, Penetration (warfare), Forensic engineering, Engineering, Physics, Astrobiology, Structural engineering

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