Development of a Conical Shaped Charge System Aiming at an Impact Velocity of 7 km/sec

Abstract

A Conical Shaped Charge System (CSC) is most suitable for an experimental device realizing a piece of typical debris of one gram mass and 10km /sec velocity in a low earth orbit. However, space debris is solid although the projectile discharged by a CSC is a solid-solution. Moreover, it is known that the damage situations generated by the collision with a solid and the solid-solution projectile are different. However, the difference cannot be clarified quantitatively. On the other hand, a solid one gram mass and 7 km/sec. projectile can be launched by the two staged light gas gun as the maximum performance. Then, the authors have been developing CSC which can discharge projectile of one gram mass and 7 km/sec. for the purpose of performing this comparison. This paper describes the design and development process of this CSC which can discharge a projectile with required mass and velocity successfully.