To improve crew safety and mission success, HVIT has designed spacecraft structures that can withstand high-speed impacts of micrometeoroid and orbital debris.

HVIT has developed multiple tools that can determine where possible risks are located on a spacecraft so that shielding solutions can be applied to those specific areas.

Meteoroid and orbital debris make traversing outer space very challenging, hence advanced shielding is needed to make sure that spacecraft (and astronauts) are safe and protected from possible hazards.

There's only one way to really know how a shield is really going to work – test it! Real-world experiments are used to develop mathematical algorithms that determine how much damage a shield can handle before it fails.

Want so see what happens when a piece of space junk hits a spacecraft at 4 miles per second? Of course you do!

Evidence of in-orbit meteoroid and orbital debris impacts taken from the ISS, Space Shuttle and other spacecraft.

Take a dive into our in-depth research and learn more about what it takes in order to exist in the realms of outer space.