micrometeoroid

In near space there was not an object bigger than a micrometeoroid within two hundred million kilometers.

The chances of running into a micrometeoroid out here are slim."

What if said micrometeoroid came from the front?

"Opening forward air lock," came the ship's voice, every pulse at this rang, like being struck by a micrometeoroid.

A micrometeoroid is a tiny meteoroid; a small particle of rock in space, usually weighing less than a gram.

Other scientific equipment was mounted on the outside, including micrometeoroid and cosmic ray detectors, and the Yenisey-2 imaging system.

It may have been the foam insulation that struck the orbiter on takeoff, or a micrometeoroid or some other freak accident.

Another risk is that "the sample magazine could be penetrated by a micrometeoroid during transit from Mars, thereby causing exterior contamination and release upon entry".

If the protected object is a spacecraft, the notion Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Protection is used.

A window shutter protects the window from potential micrometeoroid and orbital debris strikes during the life of the ISS.

This could provide as much as 24 hours to remedy punctures in comparison to the more serious results of standard ISS skin micrometeoroid damage.

The Planet Earth Today: Meteorite vs. Meteor, Meteoroid and Micrometeoroid.

The private mail was intact, for the most part, but there was damage to the time capsule at one side-a micrometeoroid impact-and three of the disks were fragmented.

Columbia's "stand-up" orbital attitude, although ideal for microgravity experiments, was very far from optimal from the point of view of D&M (Debris and Micrometeoroid) vulnerability.

The experiments were then inspected and studied by teams of space environmental effects investigators for micrometeoroid and space debris effects, space exposure effects on materials, and electrical performance.

The micrometeoroid did not damage the delicate thermal panels and tiles that protect the shuttle on its return to earth; instead, it struck a radiator panel that extends from the payload bay doors.

These RHTL micrometeoroid and orbital debris impacts on spacecraft, so that improved protection measures can be taken for NASA, DOD, and commercial space missions.

A meteor or "shooting star" is the visible streak of light from a meteoroid or micrometeoroid, heated and glowing from entering the Earth's atmosphere, as it sheds glowing material in its wake.

Since the ring's particles are presumed to have originated from impacts (micrometeoroid and larger) on Phoebe, they should share its retrograde orbit, which is opposite to the orbital motion of the next inner moon, Iapetus.

The absence of any such corroboration of a nuclear origin for the Vela Incident also suggested that the "double flash" signal was a spurious 'zoo' signal of unknown origin, possibly caused by the impact of a micrometeoroid.

A European proposal suggested equipping the Donatello MPLM with enhanced micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection and cooling systems and leaving it attached to the ISS after the Space Shuttle fleet is retired.

Other interests include dynamic fragmentation; shear dominated intersonic rupture of inhomogeneous materials and composites, rupture mechanics of crustal earthquakes, shielding of spacecraft from hypervelocity micrometeoroid impact threats, the reliability of thin films and wafer level optical metrology.

The first experiment, Polished Plate Micrometeoroid and Debris (PPMD), consisted of gold, aluminium, and zinc plates and studied how often space debris hit the station, the sizes and sources of the debris, and the damage the debris might do on hitting a space station.