Procedure for calculating attitude disturbances imparted to spacecraft by impacts of meteoroids is presented; it is shown that anisotropy of incident flux of meteoroids on space vehicle, coupled with inherent asymmetry of typical vehicles, leads to steady-state disturbance in addition to possibility of disturbance torques due to single impacts of relatively rare, large particles; multiplication of momentum effect takes place during hypervelocity impact of meteoroid which can increase attitude perturbation effect of meteoroids by order of magnitude; it is possible to accommodate most pessimistic situation without excessive weight penalties.


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    Titel :

    Attitude perturbation of space vehicles by meteoroid impacts


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    J Spacecraft Rockets


    Beteiligte:
    Cloutier, G.J. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1966


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :



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