The pursuit of hypervelocities: A review of two-stage light gas gun aeroballistic ranges

JA Rogers, NT Bass, ML Wiest, Z Wantz… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ongoing pursuit of space and hypersonic flight continues to expose critical gaps in the
understanding of material behavior under hypervelocity impact (HVI) and hypersonic flow …

Experimental and simulation efforts in the astrobiological exploration of exooceans

RS Taubner, K Olsson-Francis, SD Vance… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
The icy satellites of Jupiter and Saturn are perhaps the most promising places in the Solar
System regarding habitability. However, the potential habitable environments are hidden …

The Texas A&M University hypervelocity impact laboratory: A modern aeroballistic range facility

JA Rogers, N Bass, PT Mead, A Mote… - Review of Scientific …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Novel engineering materials and structures are increasingly designed for use in severe
environments involving extreme transient variations in temperature and loading rates …

Space science applications for conducting polymer particles: Synthetic mimics for cosmic dust and micrometeorites

LA Fielding, JK Hillier, MJ Burchell… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last decade or so, a range of polypyrrole-based particles have been designed and
evaluated for space science applications. This electrically conductive polymer enables such …

The MEMIN research unit: Scaling impact cratering experiments in porous sandstones

MH Poelchau, T Kenkmann, K Thoma… - … & Planetary Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The MEMIN research unit (Multidisciplinary Experimental and Modeling Impact research
Network) is focused on analyzing experimental impact craters and experimental cratering …

Ejecta from experimental impact craters: Particle size distribution and fragmentation energy

E Buhl, F Sommer, MH Poelchau, G Dresen… - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
The particle size distribution (PSD) of impact crater ejecta is an important parameter that is
useful for understanding the formation of natural craters, the distribution of space debris, the …

Experimental impact cratering: A summary of the major results of the MEMIN research unit

T Kenkmann, A Deutsch, K Thoma… - … & Planetary Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews major findings of the Multidisciplinary Experimental and Modeling Impact
Crater Research Network (MEMIN). MEMIN is a consortium, funded from 2009 till 2017 by …

[HTML][HTML] 铝弹丸超高速撞击防护结构的研究进展

林健宇, 罗斌强, 徐名扬, 宋卫东, 柏劲松, 裴晓阳… - 高压物理学报, 2019 - gywlxb.cn
铝弹丸超高速撞击防护结构的研究进展 首页 期刊介绍 1.期刊简介 2.收录情况 3.出版道德声明 4.OA政策
5.知识共享许可 6.版权归属 编委会 1.现任编委会 2.往届编委会 期刊导航 1.当期目录 2.优先 …

Hypervelocity impacts on dry and wet sandstone: Observations of ejecta dynamics and crater growth

T Hoerth, F SchÄFer, K Thoma… - … & Planetary Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study deals with the investigation of highly dynamic processes associated with
hypervelocity impacts on porous sandstone. For the impact experiments, two light‐gas …

A stuffed Whipple shield for the Chinese space station

R Putzar, S Zheng, J An, S Hovland - International Journal of Impact …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nine successful hypervelocity impact tests between 3.1 and 7.9 km/s were performed on
shield samples designated to be used onboard the future Chinese space station. Two types …