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Inside NASA’s White Sands Test Facility: How High-Speed Cameras Support Hypervelocity Experiments

TBMG-25740

11/01/2016

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At NASA’s White Sands Test Facility, Donald Henderson and his team spend much of their days shooting projectiles at 15,700 miles per hour. Hypervelocity testing done at the Las Cruces, NM center simulates the impact of micrometeoroids and orbital debris on spacecraft shields.

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"Inside NASA’s White Sands Test Facility: How High-Speed Cameras Support Hypervelocity Experiments," Mobility Engineering, November 1, 2016.
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Nov 1, 2016
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TBMG-25740
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English