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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.
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Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
This replenishment likely comes from collisions between dwarf planets, cometary nuclei, micrometeoroids and other flotsam and jetsam lurking in the dark of the debris disk.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 May 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
Bigelow is reasonably confident that neither of these things are very likely: BEAM's skin is made up of a proprietary layered sandwich of films, fabrics, and foams that provide, Bigelow says, better radiation and micrometeoroid protection than the rest of the ISS.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2016
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Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
This replenishment likely comes from collisions between dwarf planets, cometary nuclei, micrometeoroids and other flotsam and jetsam lurking in the dark of the debris disk.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 May 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
Bigelow is reasonably confident that neither of these things are very likely: BEAM's skin is made up of a proprietary layered sandwich of films, fabrics, and foams that provide, Bigelow says, better radiation and micrometeoroid protection than the rest of the ISS.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2016
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“Micrometeoroid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/micrometeoroid. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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