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The Whipple shield or Whipple bumper, invented by Fred Whipple, is a type of spaced armor shielding to protect crewed and uncrewed spacecraft from hypervelocity...6 KB (578 words) - 23:01, 7 January 2025- "dirty snowball" hypothesis of comets, and the invention of the Whipple shield. Whipple was born on November 5, 1906, in Red Oak, Iowa, as the son of a...13 KB (1,035 words) - 22:49, 4 March 2025
grains. Whipple had already developed a solution to this problem in 1946. Originally known as a "meteor bumper" and now termed the Whipple shield, this...15 KB (1,618 words) - 09:43, 11 July 2024- Look up Whipple in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whipple may refer to: Whipple (surname), a list of people with the surname Whip Jones (1909–2001)...2 KB (333 words) - 12:46, 7 August 2024
Aerospace in Filton, Bristol, it carried a dust shield (Whipple shield) as proposed by Fred Whipple. The shield comprised a thin (1 mm) aluminium sheet separated...23 KB (2,369 words) - 02:42, 7 April 2025
a less common application, it is used in some spacecraft that use Whipple shields. Tank spaced armour has been fielded since the First World War, when...19 KB (1,042 words) - 13:26, 28 September 2024
space telescope New Horizons, Pluto and KBO flyby probe Whipple shield, a type of spacecraft shielding Alcock, Charles; Brown, Michael; Tom, Gauron; Cate,...8 KB (674 words) - 18:04, 15 September 2024
Friability Misnay–Schardin effect Ore dressing Pyrophoricity Runit Island Whipple shield "How M1 Tanks Work: Sabot". 7 May 2002. The Accelerated Drying of Refractory...9 KB (1,103 words) - 07:49, 18 July 2024- Micrometeoroid shielding)occurred at 800 to 900 kilometres (500 to 560 mi) altitude. The ISS has Whipple shielding to resist damage from small MMOD. However, known debris with a collision...173 KB (17,553 words) - 18:15, 6 April 2025
significantly increased protection while saving weight. The analogous Whipple shield uses the principle of spaced armour to protect spacecraft from the impacts...32 KB (3,822 words) - 09:35, 2 April 2025
BEAM structural shell are expected to provide impact protection (see Whipple shield) as well as radiation protection, but model calculations need to be...33 KB (3,016 words) - 16:19, 8 June 2024
providing an average of 330 watts of power. The arrays also included Whipple shields to protect the delicate surfaces from the potentially damaging cometary...68 KB (4,660 words) - 07:31, 5 April 2025
in the United States Capitol Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004), astronomer, creator of the Whipple shield and Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University...26 KB (2,360 words) - 15:39, 11 March 2025 - exit cone, door seals, micrometeorite shield, gaskets, booster access doors, shuttle tiles, and in the Whipple shield. Ceramic-impregnated fabrics are utilized...5 KB (703 words) - 01:23, 9 May 2022
phase of the mission. The spacecraft was fitted with a 25 cm (9.8 in) whipple shield, similar to the one used on Stardust, on its leading face, designed...13 KB (1,298 words) - 16:10, 17 February 2025
to damage. The station's shields and structure have different designs on the ROS and the USOS. On the USOS, Whipple Shields are used. The US segment modules...350 KB (31,222 words) - 10:05, 8 April 2025
USS Whipple (DE-1062/FF-1062) was a Knox-class frigate commissioned in the United States Navy from 1970 to 1995. In 2002, Whipple was donated to the Mexican...22 KB (2,697 words) - 02:07, 8 February 2025
by a 1 mm-thick front Whipple shield (1.85 m diameter) and a 12 mm-thick rear Kevlar shield. Mounted on the front dust shield were three piezoelectric...98 KB (10,583 words) - 17:01, 4 November 2024- Thomas Shields (October 20, 1922 – October 18, 1955) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s. A native of Whipple, West Virginia, Shields made...2 KB (112 words) - 06:05, 6 November 2024
- Devised by Fred Whipple. Whipple shield (plural Whipple shields) (aerospace) A thin foil film attached to the outside of a spacecraft to reduce the impact
- sir," answered Grafton. "That will do, Hyde. Don't attempt to shield him," said Mr. Whipple coldly. "Light the gas, please." Grafton slid off the window-seat
- the state, pretension is nothing and power is everything. Edwin Percy Whipple, Success and Its Conditions. If you do not tell the truth about yourself
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