How Do You Simulate Space Junk Hitting a Rocket? A 45-Foot-Long BB Gun.

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• October 25, 2007
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  How Do You Simulate Space Junk Hitting a Rocket? A 45-Foot-Long BB Gun.

  Posted: October 25th, 2007, 3:00am

  Inside a physics lab at the University of Dayton Research Institute BBs are fired at 20,500 mph at spaceships. Sort of. The goal is to test the mettle of the composite fabric or aluminum skins on orbit-bound spacecraft.