Abstract:

In order to assess the damage characteristics of the debris cloud to the electronic apparatus and equipment inside the satellite, a concept about the distribution in impacted sheet is proposed, and the relevant definition is presented in this paper. Taking Swift’s model of the debris cloud as an application example, this paper gives the position of the debris cloud particle, the distribution function, the density function and its extremums. A comparison of the density functions between Swift’s model and large numbers of experiments shows that the Swift’s debris cloud model is not in accord with the experiments, and thus cannot reveal impact characteristics of the debris cloud correctly.