Chinks In ISS Armour Deliver Data On Space Junk Impacts
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 12:35
in Astronomy & Space
Speeding along in orbit at more than seven kilometres per second, the International Space Station has its surfaces carefully shielded against potentially catastrophic collisions with micrometeoroids or man-made debris. Except that is for a trio of unprotected panels until recently attached to external payload platform of ESA’s Columbus module, specifically intended to sustain impacts from tiny specks of space dust.