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Effects of Hypervelocity Impacts on Silicone Elastomer Seals and Mating Aluminum Surfaces
2009
45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit
unpublished
While in space silicone based elastomer seals planned for use on NASA's Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) are exposed to threats from micrometeoroids and orbital debris (MMOD). An understanding of these threats is required to assess risks to the crew, the CEV orbiter, and missions. An Earth based campaign of hypervelocity impacts on small scale seal rings has been done to help estimate MMOD threats to the primary docking seal being developed for the Low Impact Docking System (LIDS). LIDS is being
doi:10.2514/6.2009-5249
fatcat:hqnxlb2zurh7nfpjewqttzaj3e