{"id":93605,"date":"2025-10-20T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/93605\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:46:09","slug":"atomic-6-composite-space-armor-shields-space-operation-communications-spacecraft-and-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/93605\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic-6 composite Space Armor shields space operation communications, spacecraft and astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Space <\/a><\/p>\n

Space Armor tile. Source (All Images) | Atomic-6<\/p>\n

Atomic-6<\/a>\u00a0(Marietta, Ga., U.S.), a manufacturer of advanced mobility composites, introduces Space Armor<\/a> tiles \u2014 a\u00a0radio frequency-permeable, fragmentation-resistant orbital debris shield product for spacecraft and astronauts. Its ability to resist impact while enabling mission-critical radio communications makes it well suited for\u00a0government and commercial satellites, protecting\u00a0the future of human space activity and ensuring responsible space stewardship.<\/p>\n

Satellites and astronauts are constantly threatened by millions of untrackable, hypervelocity particles in orbit, capable of traveling at velocities greater than 7 kilometers per second \u2014 nearly 16,000 miles per hour\u00a0\u2014 and causing violent explosions on impact, which could penetrate\u00a0fuel tanks, space suits,\u00a0and tear\u00a0apart batteries and structures. Traditional\u00a0ballistic space \u201cWhipple shields\u201d that\u00a0have existed since the 1950s have a metallic makeup, which is\u00a0prohibitively heavy, blocks vital radio signals\u00a0and, when impacted, can often create more debris than it stops.<\/p>\n

Atomic-6 has demonstrated that its Space Armor\u00a0tiles are both orbital debris shielding and RF-permeable, enabling hypervelocity impact protection for communications devices. \u201cThis is a big deal. We made the first radomes that can stop orbital debris,\u201d says\u00a0Trevor Smith, CEO of\u00a0Atomic-6. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to sacrifice communications to protect your spacecraft anymore. This little composite tile preserves mission-critical functions, thereby protecting spacecraft, space stations\u00a0and people in orbit from increasingly prevalent, yet invisible threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Demonstrated test against an aluminum shield.<\/p>\n

Space Armor\u00a0tiles, developed via the company\u2019s proprietary manufacturing process,\u00a0are lighter and thinner than traditional Whipple shields, easy to install\u00a0and mitigates the creation of harmful debris. As demonstrated against aluminum,\u00a0Space Armor\u00a0tiles successfully stop a >7 kilometer\/second projectile,\u00a0producing virtually no byproducts. The aluminum equivalent shield, on the other hand, creates fragments larger than the initial projectile, and spalling debris behind the point of impact, which could damage the system it’s meant to protect.<\/p>\n

Atomic-6 has developed two scalable protection levels in either RF-permeable or RF-blocking configurations:<\/p>\n

\tSpace Armor Lite: Withstands debris impacts up to 3 millimeters, which accounts for all untrackable debris and more than 90% of all low-Earth orbit (LEO) debris.
\n\tSpace Armor\u00a0Max: Built for the most extreme conditions, it resists impacts up to 12.5 millimeters, rated for human space station protection.<\/p>\n

Both variants minimize shielding mass, stowage volume, post-impact ejecta and overall mission risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Space Armor tile. Source (All Images) | Atomic-6 Atomic-6\u00a0(Marietta, Ga., U.S.), a manufacturer of advanced mobility composites, introduces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-93605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}