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    hypervelocity impact. An impact under extreme hypervelocity results in vaporization of the impactor and target. For structural metals, hypervelocity is...
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    However, distant hypervelocity star candidates are more promising. In March 2019, LAMOST-HVS1 was reported to be a confirmed hypervelocity star ejected from...
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    Navy's Hypervelocity Projectile". Retrieved 28 August 2023. Sherman, Jason (29 March 2023). "Army executes prototype cannon-launched, hypervelocity guided...
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    hypervelocity impact. An impact under extreme hypervelocity results in vaporization of the impactor and target. For structural metals, hypervelocity is...
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    (490 mi) above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia. It was the first time a hypervelocity collision occurred between two satellites; previous incidents had involved...
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    A hypersonic wind tunnel is designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section, thus simulating the typical flow features of this flow...
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    Terminal ballistics is a sub-field of ballistics concerned with the behavior and effects of a projectile when it hits and transfers its energy to a target...
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  • hypothesis, and science fiction. Theorized in 1988, and observed in 2005, hypervelocity stars move faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way, and are...
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    civilian telescopes to remove atmospheric distortions. Research on hypervelocity railgun technology was conducted to build an information base about...
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    SDSS J090745.0+024507 (category Hypervelocity stars)
    star", it is the first discovered member of a class of objects named hypervelocity stars. It was discovered in 2005 at the MMT Observatory of the Center...
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    Retrieved 2024-10-12. "Remote Hypervelocity Test Facility". NASA. 2014-07-31. Archived from the original on 2014-07-30. "Hypervelocity Range Facility". Arnold...
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  • Aeronautical Journal January 2006 Hollis, Brian R.; Perkins, John N., “Hypervelocity Heat-Transfer Measurements in an Expansion Tube,” AIAA Paper 96-2240...
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    tunnels when not in use to protect them from attack. A 13.5/8-inch hypervelocity gun (a type of very large-calibre artillery) for stratospheric experiments...
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    A Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) is a spacecraft being developed by NASA to deflect dangerous Near Earth objects (NEOs) such as comets...
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    spaced armor shielding to protect crewed and uncrewed spacecraft from hypervelocity impact / collisions with micrometeoroids and orbital debris whose velocities...
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    United States Navy in 1966. Given the name HART, (which stands for Hypervelocity Aircraft Rocket, Tactical), the new rocket was intended to replace the...
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    Loeb, Abraham; Wegner, Gary A. (June 11, 2012). "Hypervelocity planets and transits around hypervelocity stars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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    CWISE J1249+3621 (category Hypervelocity stars)
    CWISE J1249+362 (CWISE J124909.08+362116.0) is a low-mass hypervelocity star about 408 light-years distant in the constellation Canes Venatici. It has...
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    2024. "BAE Systems' Hypervelocity Projectile (HVP) at SNA 2025". YouTube. 17 January 2025. "Army to sole-source deal for hypervelocity projectiles, drone-killing...
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    with high-speed video/film, or Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The Hypervelocity Free-Flight (HFF) Range currently comprises two active facilities: the...
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    showed that ceramic fibre woven shields offer better protection to hypervelocity (~7 km/s) particles than aluminium shields of equal weight. Another...
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    AEDC Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 is a hypersonic wind tunnel owned by the United States Air Force and operated by National Aerospace Solutions The facility...
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    attaining a high flight speed – generally supersonic or even up to hypervelocity – and collide with their targets, converting their kinetic energy and...
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  • very low terminal attack profiles are even subject to attack by modern hypervelocity guns and railguns. The evasion capabilities that HGVs employ are largely...
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    temperatures of up to 2,000 °C (3,630 °F), which it experienced at hypervelocity Russia considered its initial carbon fiber solution to be unreliable...
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    as the .22 long, and outperforms it in a long rifle barrel. Modern Hypervelocity loadings of the .22 long rifle use bullets as light as 30 gr (1.9 g)...
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    frost line of that system). The material had to have been created in a hypervelocity impact between two large bodies; relative velocities at impacts less...
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    "Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel Test Facility". www.iitk.ac.in. Retrieved 1 December 2024. Tripathi, Sibu Kumar (5 February 2024). "Hypervelocity facility...
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  • Tunnel (1957), and the Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel (1972) (Article about work performed at the Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel Hypervelocity wind tunnel reaches...
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    overlaps the Vela Supernova Remnant, it is four times more distant. A hypervelocity neutron star known as the Cosmic Cannonball has been found in this SNR...
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