Whipple shield

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The Whipple shield is a protective spacecraft armor system designed to safeguard satellites and space vehicles from damage by micrometeoroids and orbital debris through a multi-layer impact-absorbing structure.

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Fred Lawrence Whipple → eponymOf → Whipple shield ⓘ