Abstract

The thermal infrared imager TIR onboard Hayabusa2 has been developed to investigate thermo-physical properties of C-type, near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu. TIR is one of the remote science instruments on Hayabusa2 designed to understand the nature of a volatile-rich solar system small [...]

Abstract

An experimental procedure has been developed to characterize the interlaminar resistance of composite materials, specifically prepregs of vinylester-epoxy nature, based on the determination of their critical energy by the realization of consecutive low energy impacts on test specimens [...]