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Whipple shield
The
Whipple shield
or
Whipple bumper
, invented by
Fred Whipple
, is a type of
hypervelocity
impact shield used to protect manned and unmanned
spacecraft
from collisions with
micrometeoroids
and
orbital debris
whose velocities generally range between .
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