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this is a model of a Whipple Shield Whipple Shields are used to help protect some spacecraft from impacts by space debris because even something as small as a Fleck of paint can do a lot of damage when it’s traveling thousands of miles per hour the basic idea behind a Whipple Shield like the one pictured here is not to always completely stop debris it’s to break the debris up into smaller pieces and spread the impact over a larger area so it doesn’t puncture the outer wall of a spacecraft this doesn’t NE necessarily help protect against large debris but it does help with smaller pieces of debris that are too small to track
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