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Additionally, 22 micro-gram micrometeoroids are not common.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 June 2025
As impressive as Hipparcos was, Gaia shattered the records set by its precursor—although not without challenges, such as precision-threatening sprays of stray light that leaked around the edges of the spacecraft’s sun shield and through a hole punched by an errant micrometeoroid.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
And like the previous trials, the intense tests served an important purpose—in this case, making sure the shields coating LIFE habitat modules will withstand any hazardous micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) impacts.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025
By using computer modeling, researchers demonstrated that micrometeoroids striking the rings are vaporized on impact, leaving little to no dark residue behind.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 June 2025
As impressive as Hipparcos was, Gaia shattered the records set by its precursor—although not without challenges, such as precision-threatening sprays of stray light that leaked around the edges of the spacecraft’s sun shield and through a hole punched by an errant micrometeoroid.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
And like the previous trials, the intense tests served an important purpose—in this case, making sure the shields coating LIFE habitat modules will withstand any hazardous micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) impacts.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025
By using computer modeling, researchers demonstrated that micrometeoroids striking the rings are vaporized on impact, leaving little to no dark residue behind.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Micrometeoroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/micrometeoroid. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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