Light-gas gun
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The light-gas gun is an apparatus for physics experiments. It is a highly specialized gun designed to generate extremely high velocities. It is usually used to study high-speed impact phenomena, such
A light-gas gun at Rice University. Using hydrogen gas and powered by a shotgun shell, it achieves a velocity of 7 km/s. Used during the development of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope shield.
Two light-gas guns at Arnold Air Force Base's Hypervelocity Ballistics Ranges
In this Kinetic Energy Weapon test, a seven-gram Lexan projectile was fired from a light-gas gun at a velocity of 23,000 feet per second (7,000 m/s; 16,000 mph) at a cast aluminum block.
Hypervelocity
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Hypervelocity is very high velocity, approximately over 3,000 meters per second. In particular, hypervelocity is velocity so high that the strength of materials upon impact is very small compared to i
Light-gas gun
…experiments. It is a highly specialized gun designed to generate extremely high velocities. It is usually used to study high-speed impact phenomena (hypervelocity research), such as the formation of impact craters by meteorites or the erosion of materials by micrometeoroids. A light-gas gun works on the same…
The "energy flash" of a hypervelocity impact during a laboratory simulation of what happens when a piece of orbital debris hits a spacecraft in orbit