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Spacecraft used to have double walls. Micrometeorites would strike the outer wall, piercing it but shattering. The 'dust' would strike the inner wall and not pe
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Spacecraft used to have double walls. Micrometeorites would strike the outer wall, piercing it but shattering. The 'dust' would strike the inner wall and not penetrate.
- vanattab 4y agoThe problem is the 1st surface mirrors not the vehicles structural walls.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoWhich, curiously, has no wall around it. A tube or shroud outside its visual collection range, could eliminate a huge fraction of impacts. Unless they came straight on, which if direction were randomly distributed would be another decimal place better.