Timeline for Have solid dish antennas on deep space spacecraft (as opposed to meshes) ever provided any other helpful function? As meteor shields perhaps?
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| Apr 9, 2021 at 14:17 | comment | added | David Hammen | @CarlWitthoft The linked article talks about particles "on the scale of smoke particles". So yeah, tiny. | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 13:32 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | I'm guessing very small particles, since at those relative speeds a grain of sand probably penetrates the dish without even slowing down. | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 6:46 | history | edited | Tom Goodfellow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Awesome spacecraft wasn't quite that awesome
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| Apr 9, 2021 at 5:07 | history | answered | David Hammen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |