The need to study the effects of the impact of micrometeorites and orbital debris on various space-based systems has brought together the technologies of several companies and individuals in order to provide a successful instrumentation package. A light gas gun was employed to accelerate small projectiles to speeds in excess of 7 km/sec. Their impact on various targets is being studied with the help of a specially designed continuous-access rotating-mirror framing camera. The camera provides 80 frames of data at up to 1 x 10 to the 6th frames/sec with exposure times of 20 nsec.
Hypervelocity impact studies using a rotating mirror framing laser shadowgraph camera
High speed photography, videography, and photonics V ; 1987 ; San Diego, CA, United States
1988-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
X-ray shadowgraph camera design
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