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Micrometeoroid Multiple Foil Penetration and Particle Recovery Experiments on Board Space Shuttle's Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. C. Mandeville  and
J.A.M. McDonnell
J. C. Mandeville
Affiliation:
Onera/Cert/Derts, B.P. 4025, 31055 Toulouse Cedex, France
J.A.M. McDonnell
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, England

Abstract

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Experiments designed for the investigation of the near-Earth micrometeoroid flux on the Space Shuttle Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) are described. The paper examines, in particular, how two of the experiments deploy a series of multiple layer foil arrays to investigate the physical properties of incident meteoroids and lead to partial recovery of the micrometeoroids for laboratory analysis. Several thousand penetrations are expected to be returned after 12 months' exposure in Space.

Type
IV: The Interplanetary Dust Complex 2. Physical Properties
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 90: Solid Particles in the Solar System , 1980 , pp. 395 - 400
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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