Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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#Micrometeroid ☄️protection : #Starship is made of 4mm stainless steel. The #ISS got so-called "Whipple shields". The future of #spacecraft #shielding 🛡️ could stem from ongoing research into “self-healing” shields, materials that #automatically #repair themselves after they’re hit https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-do-you-shield-astronauts-and-satellites-from-deadly-micrometeorites-3911799
Pictures : #SpaceShuttle debris holes, #Satellite panel hit by #SpaceDebris https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_debris_impact_on_Space_Shuttle_window.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-118_debris_entry.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMM_panel_hole.jpg
#micrometeroid #starship #iss #spacecraft #shielding #automatically #repair #humanspaceflightsecurity #spaceshuttle #satellite #spacedebris