Chinks in ISS armour deliver data on space junk impacts
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 08:14
in Astronomy & Space
Each pointing in a different direction - forward in the direction of orbit, upwards and sideways out to space - the three 10 by 10 cm aluminium foil panels formed the sensor units of an instrument called the DEBris In-orbit Evaluator-2 (DEBIE-2), returning telemetry on impact events to a separate data processing unit...