Spacecraft designers have always been concerned about the effects of meteoroid impacts on mission safety. The engineering solution to this problem has generally been to erect a bumper or shield placed outboard from the spacecraft wall to disrupt/deflect the incoming projectiles. Spacecraft designers have a number of tools at their disposal to aid in the design process. These include hypervelocity impact testing, analytic impact predictors, and hydrodynamic codes. Analytic impact predictors generally provide the best quick-look estimate of design tradeoffs. The most complete way to determine the characteristics of an analytic impact predictor is through optimization of the protective structures design problem formulated with the predictor of interest. Space Station Freedom protective structures design insight is provided through the coupling of design/material requirements, hypervelocity impact phenomenology, meteoroid and space debris environment sensitivities, optimization techniques and operations research strategies, and mission scenarios. Major results are presented.
Optimization Techniques Applied to Passive Measures for in-Orbit Spacecraft Survivability
1991
192 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Manned Spacecraft , Unmanned Spacecraft , Hypervelocity impact , Impact tests , Meteoroid hazards , Meteoroid protection , Optimization , Spacecraft shielding , Safety devices , Meteoroid concentration , Bumpers , Design analysis , Hydrodynamics , Operations research , Space debris , Space station freedom , Spacecraft survivability
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