Abstract
Earth-orbiting spacecraft can be subjected to high velocity impacts by meteoroids and orbital debris particles. To ensure crew safety as well as the proper function of internal and external spacecraft systems, the characteristics of debris clouds generated by such impacts must be known. This paper presents an overview of a first-principles-based model that characterizes the debris clouds created by the hypervelocity impact of a spherical projectile on a thin aluminum plate. The predictions of the model are compared against numerical and experimental results to assess its validity.
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