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Whipple shield
Impact shield to protect spacecraft from micrometeoroids and orbital debris
The Whipple shield or Whipple bumper, invented by Fred Whipple, is a type of spaced armor shielding to protect crewed and uncrewed spacecraft from hypervelocity impact / collisions with micrometeoroids and orbital debris whose velocities generally range between 3 and 18 kilometres per second. According to NASA, the Whipple shield is designed to withstand collisions with debris up to 1 cm.
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