Engineers Build a gun That can Fire Projectiles at 10 km/s, Simulating High-Speed Space Debris Impacts - Universe Today
7/7/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
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A team of Canadian engineers have built a gun that will help space agencies test materials that could provide shielding against space debris!
According to the ESA’s Space Debris Office (SDO), there are about 31,630 debris objects in orbit that are regularly tracked by space surveillance networks. However, this only accounts for the larger … [+8203 chars]
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